Opened 8 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#3637 closed defect (fixed)

Manual says there are not martian spatial reference systems but there are

Reported by: robe Owned by: robe
Priority: blocker Milestone: PostGIS 2.4.0
Component: documentation Version: 2.2.x
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by robe)

As even pointed out by EvenR, our manual is wrong about Mars:

​http://postgis.net/docs/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#idm2249

​https://twitter.com/EvenRouault/status/778277167323082753 

@ian_villeda @reginaobe This paragraph isn't even true. 
There are catalogs of Mars projections : 
e.g http://spatialreference.org/ref/iau2000/mars-2000/

Change History (5)

comment:1 by robe, 8 years ago

Component: postgis → documentation
Owner: changed from pramsey to robe

comment:2 by robe, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 by robe, 8 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS 2.2.3 → PostGIS 2.4.0

comment:4 by dbaston, 7 years ago

Priority: medium → blocker

comment:5 by robe, 7 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

In 15561:

Update that yes indeed there are martian projectsions and you can even use them with geography to get measurements in meters instead of degrees.
Closes #3637

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