Refactor importers
dnerini opened this issue · comments
The current importer module includes a fairly arbitrary list of importers that are specific to data formats used by various national weather services. This list cannot grow indefinitely each time a new use case appears.
Instead, we should leverage the recent option to use importer plugins and only keep importers that are general enough.
I therefore suggest to
- migrate importers that are specific to a national data format as separate plugins (hosted wherever it makes more sense, including the parent pySTEPS organization account).
- keep only importers that refer to internation standards, as for example the ODIM HDF5 format (see #214).
For the nwp_importers work in progress in the separate pysteps-nwp-importers repo. See: pySTEPS/pysteps-nwp-importers#1