Bill Little

@banesullivan I've made some time to spin back up and show some love to `geovista`. I've bolstered the `README.md` in the short-term until I get space/time to fully bootstrap the...

@banesullivan BTW the above NOAA/NCEI OISST AVHRR `sst` dataset looks like this:  Which looks rather lush. I also added the dataset as a GeoVista pantry sample, and highlighted it...

For equality, lenient behaviour is really only your friend in the cases outlined [here](https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/stable/further_topics/lenient_metadata.html#id10) i.e., when you're comparing two things, and one thing has a value and the other not...

Okay, I'm going to proof-of-concept option [3] (above) in the context of your use case and see how it hangs together. This'll hopefully give us a concrete strawman (and hopefully...

> I like the idea of option 3 from the user POV too. Could it work similarly to the `FUTURE` flag? I.e. I can set it once at the top...

@hdyson Thanks for taking the time to report this, much appreciated. We're in the process of finalising `iris` 3.0.0rc0, and a fix for this might or might not make it...

Fancy taking it on @rcomer ? :wink:

Peloton discussion - this passes for meshes that are contiguous, but fails to recognise some meshes that aren't contiguous.

@stephenworsley Is this important for `iris-esmf-regrid` ?

Question is, who will fund that?