Bug#737272: ITP: healpy -- Python language interface for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization

[Leo Singer <lsinger@caltech.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : healpy
Version         : 1.7.3
Upstream Author : Andrea Zonca <zonca@deepspace.ucsb.edu>
* URL             : http://healpy.readthedocs.org
* License         : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: Python
Description     : Python language interface for Hierarchical Equal Area
isoLatitude Pixelization

This is the Python language implementation of HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area
isoLatitude Pixelization). It is a map projection and indexing scheme for
representing data on the unit sphere, commonly used to store all-sky
astronomical images or databases, including cosmic microwave background maps
and all-sky survey images.

This is the third of three ITPs for the C, C++, and Python interfaces
(chealpix, healpix-cxx, and healpy). I have contributed build-related code
upstream for all three packages and I maintain their respective Mac OS packages
in MacPorts.