<div dir="ltr">Compass is a pretty awesome project -- John demoed it at the workshop last fall at NCSA.  Could be really fun to explore and to develop plugins for!<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">HDF BLOG</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com">donotreply@wordpress.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:28 PM<br>Subject: [New post] Get your Bearings with HDF Compass<br>To: <a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com">matthewturk@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><u></u>


        
        
        
        


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                                The HDF Group posted: "John Readey, The HDF Group


We’ve recently announced a new viewer application for HDF5 files: HDF Compass. In this blog post we’ll explore the motivations for providing this tool, review its features, and speculate a bit about future direction for Compas"                    </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><img border="0" src="https://hdfgroup.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Compass_Rose_de_small_NNW1-300x300.png" alt="HDF Compass" style="max-width:100%;min-height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc"></p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><em><span style="color:#000000">We’ve recently announced a new viewer application for <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/" target="_blank">HDF5</a></strong> files: <strong>HDF Compass</strong>. In this blog post we’ll explore the motivations for providing this tool, review its features, and speculate a bit about future direction for Compass.</span></em></p>
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