I currently take a very causal approach to prompting. Have others started at that point and moved to the rigor discussed here? How much marginal benefit did you see? Does the investment of prompt time provide linear returns? Exponential? Logarithmic?
@julienchastang thanks for your reply. I don't believe I'm able to see the NCML files. I've put some screenshots together here in sequence: http://imgur.com/a/4oI3q#0
1. Add the catalog.xml in the Data Choosers
2. Select Image Collection in the Field Selector and click Create Display
3. The error I recieve when I click create display: "Unknown XML root:catalog"
4. The subsequent Image Collection screen which I'm not sure how to use.
Thank you again for continuing to engage with me on this.
I found that downloading IDV at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/current/index.jsp and not using Webstart resolved the startup errors I reported above and now I see the Map View. However, I'm still not able to get any data to render on the map. Would love help still!
3. I was then able to add the data source via URL and saw two options in "Field Selector": "Image Collection" and "Omni Control".
I've tried selecting either field and clicking "Create Display", but nothing ever appears in the "Displays" tab. Would welcome further advice or more specific reference to directions among the 16 videos in your YouTube playlist. Thank you!
This may be related to some of the errors[1] that seem to occur on startup of IDV.