- From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:13:36 +0100
- To: SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
On 28 March 2017 at 18:02, Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com> wrote: > Dealing with non-geographic coordinates (especially on other planetary > bodies) At the risk of seeming picky, Wikipedia has an article called "Geography of Mars": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mars and others, not least NASA, use the term "Lunar geography". It would be best to avoid such ambiguity in whatever is published - perhaps "terrestrial coordinates" may suit? > (1) it would be easy to add a comment in BP3 indicating that when publishing > data about other planets _of course_ WGS84 isn’t appropriate Thank you, yes. > (but we wouldn’t go into details as to what _is_ appropriate), Perhaps simply say that the CRS "SHOULD" (in the RFC 2119 sense of the word) be specified? > and (2) many of the best practices are still relevant. Indeed. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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