This website was created for the Galatic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey in the year 2007. The general purposes of the website are for data delivery from GPIPS and communication to the community about GPIPS. The purpose of this page is to give more information about navigating and using the website.
Please note that if you are using a browser that does not support CSS or are overriding the default CSS of these pages, you will find that some of the information on this page will not mirror your own experiences.
At the top of each page on this website there is a primary navigation bar. This navigation bar serves two purposes, which are to indicate which primary section of the page the user is currently viewing, as well as displaying links to all of the primary sections of the page. For example, the section of the website that this page is in is the "About" section of the website, of which you are viewing the "Website" page. Clicking on "Index", "Science", "Project", "Survey", "Surveyors", or "Sponsorship" in the lower section of the navigation bar will take you to another page (specifically the page that you clicked the link to) within the about section. Clicking on "Main", "About", "Data", or "Sitemap" (in the main navigation bar) will lead your internet browser to display, respectively, the main page, the default page for the "About" section of the website, the default page for the "Data" section of the website, or the sitemap.
The sitemap, accessible by clicking on "Sitemap" in the main navigation bar, gives a lising of the different pages available on this website. It is possible to do the bulk of your navigation through this site using that page only. It shows some of the structure of the website in the bulleted list.
To retrieve data from the GPIPS database using this website you can use either the short database query form or the long database query form. The latter form provides more options for the search parameters and how the results of the search are displayed. Options included in the forms are explained on the page "About the Forms".
Once the query has been submitted, a successful query will result in search results being displayed in a table as part of the website. The page will also state how many records (either point sources or fields) were found in the search, and that only up to the first 200 are displayed. To receive an ASCII file of the complete search results you need to fill out the short form at the bottom of the search results page. It will ask if you would like to download the ASCII file directly from the page or if you would rather have a copy emailed to the email address that you specify, as well as if you would like to receive all of the information we have available about the point sources or fields in question, or just the information that you originally requested in the query to be displayed. Further information about the data products is available on the "About the Data Products" page.
To contact us with any questions, comments, or suggestions, please use the email form that we have provided. A link to this form appears at the bottom of each page of this website, as well as there being a link in the sitemap and on this page.