Other sources for water currents

[ekrell]

I have water currents in the form of a raster where each band is a vector field at some time. Actually 2 rasters: direction and magnitude. This is easy to generate from ocean model online services like NECOFS/NGOFS (usually giving a NetCDF product).

I see that you can bring in HEC-RAS .hdf outputs. Any thoughts on supporting rasters or even just ASCII text files? Would be nice to have a simple, generic file supported that people can convert just about any source of currents to.

If it sounds doable, I should be able to spend some time to add this functionality.