HipsSurveyProperties for the CDS HIPS surveys by ID

[richardgmcmahon]

Hello,

I am using this syntax to get the properties for the VLASS1.1 survey

url = "http://archive-new.nrao.edu/vlass/HiPS/VLASS1.1/Quicklook/properties" hips_survey_properties = HipsSurveyProperties.fetch(url)

How do I get the properties for some the CDS surveys used in https://hips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html starting from the survey ID

e.g. hips_survey = 'CDS/P/DSS2/red'

[cdeil]

You can do this:

import hips
p = hips.HipsSurveyProperties.from_name('CDS/P/DSS2/red')
print(p.data)

Or to fetch the list of all HiPS at CDS and then use lookup by name:

h = hips.HipsSurveyPropertiesList.fetch()
p = h.from_name('CDS/P/DSS2/red')
print(p.data)

@tboch - Is the implementation / URLs we query good? Or is there a better way?

And probably this isn't mentioned in the high-level docs yet, should be explained there.

[tboch]

@cdeil:

@tboch - Is the implementation / URLs we query good? Or is there a better way?

The implementation queries the MocServer on alasky, that's the best/most consistent way to do it.