gzipped images in SIAP 1.0

[Rob Seaman]

On May 22, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Steve Allen wrote:

>> A tile compressed file is a legal FITS bintable.
>
> Unfortunately in the purely FITS world "legal" has no mechanism for  
> proceeding to "comprehensible".

The mechanism is the same as for the VO world:  interoperable  
prototypes.  Any application layered on CFITSIO already supports FITS  
tile compression transparently.  In that case, calling it an image/ 
fits would be perfectly correct.

I tried to raise the issue for discussion on FITSBITS earlier today,  
but the message has bounced twice.

Rob