Dear VO members,
I would like to bring the discussion to another point related to the VO and Google Sky/WWT.
I would like to ask to Google sky team and Microsoft WWT team if it is possible to create my own client accessing their image data base. For instance, if I want to add a dedicated Aladin layer displaying the HTM sky background images from Microsoft data base, or the sector base sky background images from Google, could I ? 1) Is there open standards for that and I can develop my own client ? 2) Could I have to plug a kind of proprietary libraries in Aladin ? 3) Or perhaps it is not possible at all (technically ? strategically ? no documented ?) Obviously, the first solution will be the best for my VO point of view.
I really appreciate to offer to Aladin users these astronomical data. Exactly in a symetric way that WWT and Google Sky use Simbad opened standards (object resolver, ...), or VizieR catalog access, and other VO access..
Pierre Fernique Received on 2008-01-17Z10:03:06