Re: [uf-discuss] Mars & Moon news stories

[Frances Berriman]

On 07/12/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Both Mars and the Moon have been in the news this week:

  *  water on mars:





  *  Mars landers photographed:







"The complete image is centered at 22.3 degrees
latitude, 312.1 degrees East longitude."

  *  Moon base proposed:





and in each case specific locations are referred to.

Where are we, with the 'Mars':



and 'Luna':



proposals?


The plans for the Lunar base are certainly exciting.  Discussing
specific areas of the moon will become much more common place over the
next decade, I'm sure!  How sci-fi. (I'm genuinely interested in this,
btw, this isn't sarcasm on any level.)

Re: status of proposals - back atch'ya!  You appear to be the major
contributor to both of these proposals, so where are you with them?
What specific problems are causing hold-ups, if any?

F

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Re: [uf-discuss] Mars & Moon news stories

[Andy Mabbett]

In message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frances
Berriman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

>On 07/12/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Both Mars and the Moon have been in the news this week:

>> Where are we, with the 'Mars':
>>
>> 
>>
>> and 'Luna':
>>
>> 
>>
>> proposals?

>back atch'ya!  You appear to be the major
>contributor to both of these proposals, so where are you with them?

I've done everything I think I can (please let me know if I've missed
something) and am waiting for some response from "the community".

>What specific problems are causing hold-ups, if any?

So far as I can see, the issues are:

   *should these be subsets of "geo" (i.e. add an extra class to
geo, indicating which body is being referred to); or stand-alone
(I'm happy either way; using the former may produce nonsensical
results in existing parsers; this might be deemed of little
concern).

   *should there be a class to indicate the mapping convention being
used, or should the uF specify a default (as, I believe, is done
with geo)? (Of course, there could be a "default unless
otherwise stated", meeting both needs).

   *lack of involvement from the relevant space scientists, not
least as addressed in discussion (and apparent rejection by this
community - or is the jury still out?) of the potential use of a
dedicated mailing list.

   *naming issues (if any remain, I think they are relatively
trivial and easily resolvable).

Do you think a "straw man" might be due?

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Re: [uf-discuss] Mars & Moon news stories

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

>Do you think a "straw man" might be due?

I've made one, anyway:



since the issues to be decided appear finite and easy to list.

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