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Message #19160
Re: latitude and longitude quirk
In conventional math the order is (x, y, z) and most GIS tools and
frameworks use the same order, afaik. Including geojson/openlayers.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And geojson also, which is what we are using this for.
>
> http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_draft_version_5
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> 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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