MPhamWMF added a comment.
Thanks for raising this issue and updating the user manual. As pointed out, we are currently Earth-centric, which is currently a reasonable expectation for the majority of use cases. For astronomy, I recognize this will often be insufficient for various reasons -- as was also pointed out, we're also making assumptions about perfect spheres. As of now we are not prioritizing second order calculations like this in WDQS by design due to the complexity and hyper-specificity involved. I think there is sufficient information on the astronomical objects to calculate non-Earth distances based on coordinates outside of WDQS for specific use cases -- or perhaps if distance is required for a query, to calculate these distances externally enough to restrict queries to a range of coordinates on the astronomical object in question. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175578 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: MPhamWMF Cc: MPhamWMF, Iamamz3, Smalyshev, thiemowmde, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Jonas, VIGNERON, Aklapper, Invadibot, maantietaja, CBogen, Akuckartz, ET4Eva, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, Avner, Gehel, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, FloNight, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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