Index: trunk/psLib/src/imageops/psImageMap.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/imageops/psImageMap.c	(revision 14983)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/imageops/psImageMap.c	(revision 14988)
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
  *  @author Eugene Magnier, IfA
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.3 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2007-09-22 03:05:50 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.4 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2007-09-24 02:59:46 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2007 Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
@@ -69,4 +69,26 @@
     psImageBinningSetScale (map->binning, PS_IMAGE_BINNING_CENTER);
     psImageBinningSetSkip (map->binning, map->field);
+
+    return map;
+}
+
+// allocate the image map using the psImageBinning supplied
+psImageMap *psImageMapNoImageAlloc(psImageBinning *binning, psStats *stats) {
+
+    assert (binning);
+    assert (stats);
+
+    psImageMap *map = (psImageMap*)psAlloc(sizeof(psImageMap));
+    psMemSetDeallocator(map, (psFreeFunc)psImageMapFree);
+
+    map->field   = NULL;
+    map->stats   = psMemIncrRefCounter (stats);
+    map->binning = psMemIncrRefCounter (binning);
+
+    map->map     = psImageAlloc (binning->nXruff, binning->nYruff, PS_TYPE_F32);
+    psImageInit (map->map, 0.0);
+
+    map->error   = psImageAlloc (binning->nXruff, binning->nYruff, PS_TYPE_F32);
+    psImageInit (map->error, 0.0);
 
     return map;