Ho John Lee’s Weblog

Data Compression Blog notes an updated release of the open source IIPImage Server.

There are some fun demos of interactive browsing through very high resolution satellite and Hubble telescope imagery of Earth, the Orion Nebula, and M101.

I haven’t kept up with IIP since wrapping up work on it many years ago (back at HP), so it’s interesting to see it still has a bit of life. The original implementation was done around 1996, before XML-RPC, SOAP, REST, and all of today’s Web 2.0 underpinnings. It’s amazing to look back and see how much internet software infrastructure has become widely deployed in the past ten years. I suspect we’d consider an implementation approach similar to Google or Yahoo Maps if the effort were started today, but I’m glad to see people find IIP useful.

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