Boxes and Polygons in ADQL/STC. Questions and recommendation.

John Good jcg at ipac.caltech.edu
Sat Oct 24 11:56:55 PDT 2009


Roy -

> My point is that I suspect 90% of region queries will, in reality, be 
> RECT or CONE. We should make sure this works well in the prototypes, 
> perhaps delay the more complex region implementation until these two 
> work well?
Not true.  Cone is probably the most common but the next most common
is people trying to get sources that match an image, which is hardly ever
a RECT (and is in fact usually more like a rotated BOX).

- John



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