For every globe we would always need a geodesic system. Even if it is the Mars, we need to know where are the poles, where is the 0 Meridian, etc. Refering to these seems to make most sense.
Which does not mean that we should let the user decide if they want WGS84 or Ares Prime 0, or Selenographic system etc. -- the editor should merely choose "Earth", "Mars", or "Moon" respectively. (Names are made up, I could actually not figure out what the usual geodesic systems are). Cheers, Denny 2013/1/8 Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> > Hey, > > Why use Q2 ("earth") as the glob, and not Q215848 ("WSG84")? That would be > a lot > clearer, I think. > > > Since WGS84 implies Earth, this works for Earth. Is such an implication > always present though? What if I want to describe a location on some random > planet - I suspect you'd have to specify some system and the globe. If this > is the case, we should not omit the globe. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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