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Re: latitude and longitude quirk

 

And geojson also, which is what we are using this for.

http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_draft_version_5

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jason Pickering
<jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think this is the default on GML 2.1, WKT and WKB formats, so this
> probably explains it. ogr2ogr will by default export long/lat instead
> of lat/long.
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Never noticed this before ... when we serialize the coordinates of a
>> point like this [30.02538,-2.18537] we interpret this as <long>,<lat>.
>>  This seems odd.  I think the convention is <lat>,<long>
>>
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