Rotpunkt created this task.
Herald added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper.

TASK DESCRIPTION
  There are some celestial bodies that use planetographic coordinates 
(http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/TargetCoordinates), increasing to the West, 
and currently Wikidata does not support this system.
  
  Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlinda_(crater)
  
  It has coordinates (source: http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/54):
  
  - 48.5 South
  - 35.6 West
  
  Now in Wikidata coordinates are (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki Q2577126):
  
  - -48.5
  - 35.6
  - globe: callisto
  
  However, the web interface shows:
  
  - 48°30'0.000"S, 35°36'0.000"E (East instead of West)
  
  because Wikidata does not manage planetographic coordinates.
  
  Sometimes instead in Wikidata celestial bodies with planetographic 
coordinates (according to the source) use planetocentric coordinates, example: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard_%28crater%29 => 32.2° North, 139.9° West 
according the source: http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/420 => but 
32.2, -139.9° in Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724438).
  
  In this way there is a great confusion among Wikidata items, and among 
Wikidata and the source. Coordinates are inusable for celestial bodies 
different from the Earth.
  
  It is therefore necessary:
  
  - the web interface should allow you to specify the coordinate system 
(planetocentric or planetographic)
  - or if this is not possible, it should be clarified which is the one and 
only coordinate system for all celestial bodies.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136841

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To: Rotpunkt
Cc: Aklapper, Zppix, Rotpunkt, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331



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