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Refactor importers

Open dnerini opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

The current importer module includes a fairly arbitrary list of importers that are specific to data formats used by various national weather services. This list cannot grow indefinitely each time a new use case appears.

Instead, we should leverage the recent option to use importer plugins and only keep importers that are general enough.

I therefore suggest to

  • migrate importers that are specific to a national data format as separate plugins (hosted wherever it makes more sense, including the parent pySTEPS organization account).
  • keep only importers that refer to internation standards, as for example the ODIM HDF5 format (see #214).

dnerini avatar Jul 26 '21 09:07 dnerini

For the nwp_importers work in progress in the separate pysteps-nwp-importers repo. See: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps-nwp-importers/pull/1

RubenImhoff avatar Jan 19 '22 12:01 RubenImhoff