[iaufwg] FITS conventions

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2006-02-10T14:05:27 -0700, Doug Tody hath writ:
> I am sure this is all wonderful technology, and it might well be worthwhile
> for us to evaluate this for use in appropriate applications.

For reference, a friend who does GIS reviewed this thread

> Although I have some issue with the "sewer lines" crack, I do agree that
> that GIS could have a lot to offer.  In particular, the remote sensing
> crowd is all about multi-band image processing, and are sort of like
> astronomers, except that their cameras are pointed the wrong way.

He also pointed at

GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
http://www.gdal.org/
which supports most of the existing GIS tool formats
http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html
and already handles FITS
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS

GDAL has python, perl, and ruby wrappers
interfaces with MySQL and PostgreSQL
ways of handling XML
image warping and regridding

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