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Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth by mooneater on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:05PM (#15060685)
Giving credit where due -- postGIS depends on Proj4 for coordinate projections: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
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Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth by ringshall on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:23AM (#15063690)
Which is why other projects that depend on Proj4, such as QGIS, also work with projections for various celestial bodies.
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