On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10 May 2014 21:58, Scott MacLeod <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Are there any current examples of non-earth Wikidata and
>> Wikipedia-coordinates, for example?
>
> The [English] Wikipedia coordinate system supports other planetary 
> coordinates:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_(crater)
>
> From the documentation:
>
> ...recognized values are: mercury, venus, moon, mars, phobos, deimos,
> ceres, vesta, ganymede, callisto, io, europa, mimas, enceladus,
> tethys, dione, rhea, titan, hyperion, iapetus, phoebe, miranda, ariel,
> umbriel, titania, oberon, triton, and pluto.

On the raw version of the item for Aristarchus crater (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Export/Q542806 ) , you can see a
reference to the coordinates being associated with globe
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q405 (moon)

> There is similar support for celestial coordinates:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star
>
> Not sure how Wikidata currently supports any of these.

Im not sure about celestial coordinates.  It looks like this may not
be supported yet.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/4#Celestial_coordinates_.2F_Astronomische_Koordinaten_.2F_coordonn.C3.A9es_c.C3.A9lestes

-- 
John Vandenberg

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