Ryan Abernathey
Ryan Abernathey
Thanks a lot for the feedback! With xgcm, we are very interested in following standards (rather than making up new metadata conventions). That's why we followed the [comodo spec](http://pycomodo.forge.imag.fr/norm.html), which...
More generally, all these conventions should be supported: http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/esmf_releases/last_built/ESMF_refdoc/node3.html#SECTION03028000000000000000
Hi @mgrover1! Unfortunately I was on vacation last week and was unable to attend. How did it go?
> It'd be nice to hear of use-cases where this would be useful. The main use case is to automatically build a `xgcm.Grid` object for an xarray dataset which contains...

Really great idea! This could leverage some of dask's repr_html SVG machinery to draw the cubes.
https://github.com/dask/dask/blob/master/dask/array/svg.py
"would've"?
Why don't you add that example as a test case instead?
(Just make up a dataset with those coords...don't use a real dataset.)