Re: Progress report: Mark IV online data

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

> All the data Tom sent me is now loaded into the database.
> 11,853,745 observations!

  Well done!

> It has also been suggested to add a header to the downloaded data with
> the layout information. I didn't do it originally because I wanted to
> duplicate exactly the format of the file Tom had been sending out. I was
> also worried about messing up any of the scripts that people had
> developed to process those files.

  My suggestion: do what I did for the Mark III database:
add an option in the form to "include header".  If the user
checks it, then you can place a header at the start of the
returned information.  Otherwise, leave it as-is.

> There is a new page:
> where you can view all the objects within a selected region and download
> data for a particular object.

  I tried it, but my guesses at reasonable RA/Dec ranges all failed
to return any data.  Might you add some means for the user to see
what regions on the sky are included in the database?

  Keep up the great work!

                                        Michael Richmond