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| Arnie,
Thanks for your reply.
We are certainly in your camp as it relates to the Ag Leader/CNH relationship. The same with all the firmware updates, not just Ag Leader's, but everyones. No use bashing our heads against the wall on this , though. It is a fact of life in this little business. The lesson for readers of this forum is, before going to the field make sure you are current with the latest firmware and you are current with your desktop software. Actually, better advice may be find out what the new features and fixes are supposed to do and decide if you need them or not. Last minute firmware and software releases are unsettling and there is nothing like releasing to the field to find out which use case scenario wasn't thought of by engineering. Takeway: Make an effort to stay in touch with your hardware and software vendors. You will have better data if you do.
Yes, there has to be metadata, regardless of whether you are using a .csv or shapefile. The solution for the shapefile is to do what some ag software vendors have done. That is to add another file (typically an xml formated file) to the shapefile collection that describes the content of the shapefile. This is similar to AEA's transfer file proposal (which hardly saw the light of day). The solution for the .csv is less elegant. In all cases I am familiar with the user who is consuming the .csv has to build a template that descibes the order of data and its content. As you correctly stated, I would have needed to provide you with that information about the file snippet I posted before you could have done anything useful with it.
The advantage of the .xml file format is all the data can be contained in a single file and its content is self describing. Yes, it means the consuming software must have some code written in order to decompose it. But once that is done, it is so much easier for the end user.
You have made a tremendous effort to learn and apply this technology to your farming operation. Your experience and knowledge is very valuable to reders of this forum. We are looking forward to reading more of your posts.
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How deeply should we be looking at yield data?
