{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/790","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/790/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/790/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/790/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/790","id":140063713,"number":790,"title":"ENH: Optional Read-Only RasterIO backend","user":{"login":"jhamman","id":2443309,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2443309?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman","html_url":"https://github.com/jhamman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/labels/backends","name":"backends","color":"009800"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"207de5"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2016-03-11T02:00:32Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T15:44:48Z","closed_at":null,"body":"RasterIO is a GDAL based library that provides *Fast and direct raster I/O for use with Numpy and SciPy*. I've just used it a bit but have been generally impressed with its support for a range of ASCII and binary raster formats.  It might be a nice addition to the suite of backends already available in `xarray`.\r\n\r\nI'm envisioning a functionality akin to what we provide in the PyNIO backend, which is to say, read-only support for which ever file types RasterIO supports. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/comments/197939841","html_url":"https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/790#issuecomment-197939841","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/790","id":197939841,"user":{"login":"jhamman","id":2443309,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2443309?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman","html_url":"https://github.com/jhamman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jhamman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-17T15:44:48Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T15:44:48Z","body":"As for 1) I'm open to having more discussion on decoding the coordinates.  My contention here is that are useful, even in their unstructured format, since it permits visualization out of the box. I'll ping @perrygeo for more on this.\r\n\r\n2) I don't really want to get into this because there isn't a standard treatment in geotiffs so it would, at best, be a guess on our end.  "}}