Simbad data in Google Sky

[Mark Taylor]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Alberto Conti wrote:

>> (Note also that the geometric projection
>> that GoogleSky uses is worthless at the poles.)
> indeed, but this was a design compromise that had to be made. We will 
> continue to push Google, and the astronomers that work at Google, to correct

my guess is that this projection is determined by the tiling scheme
used by GoogleEarth/Sky and that modifying or generalising that
tiling scheme this would require major efforts within the application,
hence is unlikely to happen.  However I may be wrong.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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