luna-brainstorming
Luna Brainstorming
Andy Mabbett
Proposal
I propose a "luna" microformat, for marking up co-ordinates on our Moon. This would be based on the "geo" microformat (and thus relatively easy to implement, since code for "geo" can be re-used).
Note, though, that [1] and [2] indicate that more than one system of recording the co-ordinates, for any given point, is in use, and it may be necessary to include an attribute to indicate which system is to be used, though the most recent standards appears to be the IAU Mean Earth Polar Axis co-ordinate system, as used by NASA and Wikipedia, and described in Davies and Colvin, J. Geophys. Res., v. 105, pp. 20,227 - 20,280, 2000.
Kevin Marks
Note multiple statements of Apollo landing co-ords here: [3]
- "Currently, the lunar geoid is being redefined with Clementine data, so the location (latitude, longitude, and elevation) of everything will change again very soon".
I believe the reference geoids for other planets are also under revision