Post #1411231

We will see byte-reference virtualizing of the world's image server PNG files rather than use a handful of text to virtualize the entire service. Byte ref virtualization is THE stand-in for creating a simple serialized version of an xarray, no middle ground. The other main player here is one downstream python wrapper of (a rather old version of) GDAL, a community that didn't see past it won't turn back. Interesting times ahead! Array formats are getting *more* complicated 2/