[ gpsdrive ] grib files

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> > NetCDF is a bit complex, but things look rather good in GDAL-land:
> >   http://www.gdal.org/frmt_grib.html
> 
> good news...

upon further inspection I see that GRIB support in GDAL was just added
a few months ago so not in the stable release (1.5). I think if you
drop the frmts/grib/ dir from GDAL's SVN into the 1.5.x source tree and
rerun ./configure it will pick it up though.
For me, I'll wait for GDAL 1.6 to try it, unless I need to recompile
GDAL for some other reason.

Chris:
> played with zqGrib and it seems to work well. Base maps is poor as
> it uses the gshhs world boundaries map but it has zoom features so
> you can get relatively localized data display in a transparency
> overlay....say in a 1000 miles square region...which is about as low
> as you want to go I presume for the data to be relevant.
> 
> see http://zygrib.free.fr/ comes with source of course. 

interesting,


Hamish