[gdal-dev] vsicurl access to a netcdf file does not see the coordinates

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2019-06-01 6:52 PM, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís wrote:
> |>Ah, there is no chance that /vsicurl/ with netcdf will work on Windows. It also
> |>requires the "user-fault file descriptor" Linux specific mechanism.
> 
> It actually almost works. This command should be equal to just download the file
> 
> grdconvert /vsicurl/http://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/ftp/tmp/idades_v2012.grd -Glixo.grd
> 
> and I get the file. Only the coordinates are wrong but for the rest, the grid is fine.
> 
> Is there a way to force reading the grid locally with the HDF5 driver instead of the automatically picked netCDF driver?
> _______________________________________________

I come across this need often also, as many MS4W users leverage GDAL 
through netCDF, HDF5, HDF4, but I'm not aware of a GDAL commandline 
option to 'skip' raster drivers (OGR has "OGR_SKIP").  I could be wrong 
though.  I have seen other users request this 
(https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5917) which seems to say that there 
is a way through the GDAL API, but, I'm just not sure about the commandline.

-jeff


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