This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer and finer spatial resolution which facilitates a progressive view of a survey, and supports multi-resolution zooming and panning. HiPS is based on a HEALPix discretization of the sphere.
The current IVOA Recommendation is REC-1.0. Prior versions are available on the IVOA Documents page.
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When cloning your fork of this repository, use --recurse-submodules to include its submodules.
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/[your github user]/HiPS.git
Then: run "make" and hope you have all the necessary tools installed.
More more information, see the ivoatex README and the IVOA note IVOATeX Document Preparation System.
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