Re: SAMP draft text

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:58:29 +0100

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>> there doesn't seem to be any coord.* messages listed? Is this an
>> oversight, or has it not been gotten around yet
>
> There was debate over whether these would be useful things to have
> or just a can of worms.

What!!!??? You're kidding, not useful!? pointAtCoords accounts for about 50% of the PLASTIC traffic between the various server-side eSTAR applications using it. Okay, I'm using PLASTIC a bit oddly in places, but...

> If you have suggestions, the entire list of mtypes is up for
> discussion.

I'll have,

    coord.point

with args

     ra, dec

and

    coords.event.point

with args

    ra, dec

please!

Cheers,
Al. Received on 2008-05-02Z14:58:29