hello everyone,
Yesterday I visited ASTRON and there we discussed casacore-data (or measures data).
There is no true central management of casacore-data, people just role their own. NRAO builds them, CSIRO builds them and also ASTRON builds them:
The one distributed by Astron also contains additional information about for example the LOFAR telescope. It is made with custom scripts consisting of fortrain and c++ code, glued together with tch. The data in the FTP archive is updated every week with updated measurements of the positions of the tectonic plates and movement of the earth. Casacore will use predicted data if the data is not available, but this will run out of sync after a while and this gets worse the longer you don't update the data.
What I would do is just use the data from the ASTRON FTP server and update the package every week.
greetings,
- Gijs