Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : hipspy Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christoph Deil and Thomas Boch * URL : https://hips.readthedocs.io * License : BSD 3-Clause Programming lang : Python Upstream git : https://github.com/hipspy/hips (4 stars) Pypi URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hips Description : Python package for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) is a way to store large astronomical survey sky image and catalog datasets on servers (such as HiPS at CDS), that allows clients to efficiently fetch only the image tiles or catalog parts for a given region of the sky they are interested in. Similar to Google maps, but for astronomy (see the HiPS paper). This is a Python package to fetch and draw HiPS data. This is an Astropy affiliated package. The Debian package will be maintained by the Debian Astro team. A git repository will be created at https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/hipspy Best regards Ole
