Hierarchical Sphere Pixelization

[jankotek]

There is entire category of spherical location codes used in astronomy. Compared to Lat/Long codes it does not have distortion and requires shorter code.

Not sure if this is useful, just FYI

http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64531/tr-2005-123.pdf

http://www.skyserver.org/htm/

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/SkyPixelization

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1992ASPC...25..379W&db_key=AST

[waldyrious]

You should probably try to integrate this information into the project's wiki :)

[waldyrious]

@drinckes any words on why this was closed?

[drinckes]

I thought it can still be done if someone wants, but I can see closing the issue gave the wrong impression. Sorry.

I'll open it and leave it with a help wanted tag. If someone wants to do it, they can pick it up.

[drinckes]

I don't think it's appropriate to add this content to the comparison doc, since that would give the misleading impression that this category was evaluated prior to the design of OLC.

With that in mind, I'm going to close off this issue.