Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying “we’re going to create a file format that does EVERTHING”, and well… it does… poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren’t that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I’m doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.
Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying “we’re going to create a file format that does EVERTHING”, and well… it does… poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren’t that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I’m doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.