[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on compressed FITS image and tables

[Paul Hirst]

> On 24 Jun, 2015, at 22:37, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at BRISTOL.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> I don't deal much with images, but interestingly, I have never
> had complaints or requests concerning use of tile-compressed FITS
> tables in STIL/STILTS/TOPCAT.  That suggests that tile compression
> for table data is much less used than for image data.  Can anybody
> comment on whether that's the case?

That’s certainly my experience - I’ve encountered (and know of facilities that use) tile compression on image data, but I’ve never seen it or heard of its use on table data. I confess I didn’t actually realize the latter was possible.

Paul.