[gdal-dev] is there a way to concatenate the band in raster file name

[Etienne Tourigny]

Paolo,

This feature would have to be driver-specific, so adding it to netcdf
would not benefit other drivers (in fact not all of them support
this).

Some time ago there was a discussion about standardizing the
driver:filename syntax , it seems to have stalled. It could be a nice
addition to have the option band=<band_no> in there.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-October/030305.html
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc36_open_by_drivername

Would it be worth it allowing to select multiple bands (by range or
list) such as NETCDF:file.nc:var:1-2,4
There is a similar request already for selecting multiple bands:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2540

Etienne

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Using the netCDF driver, I have noticed that there is a nice syntax
> for getting the dataset and the single raster in the dataset.
>
> For example, in my case, for accessing the dataset:
>
>   $ gdalinfo NETCDF:/my/path/data/mynetcdf_dataset.nc
>
> and for accessing the single raster:
>
>   $ gdalinfo NETCDF:/my/path/data/mynetcdf_dataset.nc:myraster
>
> I was wondering if there is a way (that could be very useful also for
> other raster formats) to concatenate also the band, something like
> this:
>
>   $ gdalinfo NETCDF:/my/path/data/mynetcdf_dataset.nc:myraster:myband
>
> I would need this for using it in MapServer, without the need to
> create virtual rasters (that seems to be the only viable solution at
> my eyes)
> Thanks for your patience
>
> P
>
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