Agreed, I know I'm heavily biased myself towards a little corner of tech.

PS: I raised the issue of the local headers in 
https://github.com/csaybar/ESA-zar-zip-decision/issues/5, if you want to follow.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, at 12:07, Michael Sumner wrote:
> Agree with all this, unfortunately xarray was a bit late with PR 9543 that 
> provides a basis for implicit coordinates (and will hopefully feed down into 
> Zarr), and knowing the difference from the low basis NetCDF provided.
> 
> There's a lot to it, but my read is that xarray is the new and way better 
> NetCDF (and I mean really damn impressive and ambitious and general), but 
> because it's born in python it missed a lot of really key geospatial 
> foundations that we take for granted, and for various reasons don't flow well 
> from rasterio through xarray .
> 
> I have long seen a need for some pretty serious cross discipline reviews, and 
> many of those are happening but not always enough, especially with 
> generational overwork and "novelty" burnout.
> 
> 
> Appreciate the discussion here a lot. 
> Cheers, Mike
> 
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