Say you want to know the location of the Apollo crater, so that you can check where is the famous crater in that map you wrote in the html/js turorial. Well, by the time of this writing (July 2019) you either had to go to Wikipedia -- which, by the way, you should anyway -- or you could go to IAU/USGS planetary nomenclature page at https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/, which is OK.

But we can do better: we can build our own DB and provide it through a REST interface, for example, that would allow to simply ask for a "name" in a "body" and get its "location".

Data is provided by USGS through a series of WMS endpoints. The endpoints, organized by body name, are listed in:

• https://astrocloud.wr.usgs.gov/dataset/data

More information, and also examples, about nomenclature can be found at:

• https://astrocloud.wr.usgs.gov/dataset/docs/index.html

To run the app:

$ python app/run.py

This app is built on:

• Eve / Flask
• MongoDB