Re: Libraries for working with STC?

From: Arnold Rots <arots-at-head.cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:58:08 -0400 (EDT)


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

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.
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> 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.
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> If so, what is the classification scheme -- how would I fetch a KML
> version of the SDSS footprint for example?
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> Roy
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> 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.
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> California Institute of Technology
> 626 395 3670
>


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