[fitswcs] WCS documents
Eric Greisen
egreisen at NRAO.EDU
Mon Sep 17 16:00:05 EDT 2001
I do not favor the use of NAXIS solely for the multi-pixel axes. It
misses too many very useful cases including those arising from
subimaging and leads to people thinking that an image has only a
spectral and 1 positional axis when there can never be 1 positional
axis.
But, if I am *forced* to accept some compromise then let's at least
use WCSAXES (NAXIS should have been NAXES). Note that this "solution"
is not a compromise, it is a total capitulation to a view I cannot
even understand.
The radio software will have to be fixed to handle the use of WCSAXES
> NAXIS (by replacing NAXIS with WCSAXES) or it will break. We are
not talking about an *internal* format. We are talking about an
*external* *transport* format which by definition is expected to be
translated when being read to or written from an internal format.
Eric Greisen
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