Libraries for working with STC?

Arnold Rots arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 12 11:58:08 PDT 2008


I suppose KML would be another serialization of STC, like STC-K?

  - Arnold

Roy Williams wrote:
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> I'd like to follow up Noel's question with one of my own, that also 
> concerns presenting coverage information.  I am interested in using 
> Google Sky as a way to present this, since it is easy to use, runs 
> already in every browser, allows overlay and pan and zoom.
> 
> Therefore I would like to know if any of the VO footprint, coverage, 
> STC, or registry services can convert to or produce KML output, either 
> as raster or vector graphics.
> 
> If so, what is the classification scheme -- how would I fetch a KML 
> version of the SDSS footprint for example?
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Noel Winstanley wrote:
> > In voexplorer, I'd like to present resource coverage information in an 
> > astronomer-friendly manner.  The coverage of a service is described in 
> > a registry resource by a block of STC/x.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> California Institute of Technology
> 626 395 3670
> 
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