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The internal FEWS data format is more descriptive than the IDF format. The needed conversions and adaptations are mentioned here.
Restrictions
Only time series content with a single time series and a single content time can be serialized.
Coordinates
In IDF, the bounding box coordinates are specified by their X and Y coordinate. Their coordinate system is not explicitly stored. The name of the used geo datum is stored in the IDF comment.
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