On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >
> >> What's the deal with the starjava commit concerning PLASTIC/SAMP and 1D
> >> fits spectra? How can it transfer FITS but not 1D FITS? They are both
> >> fits. Confused.
> >
> > SPLAT could transmit and receive both types, but it seems to be in a class
> > of one (or maybe two) spectral viewers that can. This new position just
> > reflects that most other implementors see PLASTIC and SAMP as just an
> > extension of the VO to the desktop, so general purpose message types
> > should probably just send and receive VO data formats. In the case of
> > spectra that seems to be FITS tables.
> >
> > (this change of position is to support interoperability with Herschel)
> >
>
> That is completely bizarre.
>
> What happened to 1D spectra with full Paper III WCS?????
I think it's just seen as too restrictive to fit in with the VO spectral
data model, so no serialisations of it as 1D FITS are described.
I also suspect that the elephant in the room against 1D FITS is handling
the WCS information. That's considerably simplified using a table.
Peter.
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