Hello geowankers,
As old as the question to be or not to be, is whether ordinate order
(latitude,longitude) is better than (longitude,latitude). Everyone has funny
stories how they were mixed up in your code, how drones went to bomb wrong
enemies etc. I get once and a while questions from geonovices “which comes
first”.
In the world domination of certain advertising company (latitude, longitude)
seems to be preferred, also OSM URL uses same order. I am thinking of them as x
and y, and in my 4th grade math I remember that x goes always to “right”, i.e.
east, and y goes to “up”, which is north on canonical maps. So I prefer x,y and
in other words less common longitude,latitude. Order of y,x
(latitude,longitude) seems therefore unnatural for me. In various APIs you can
find either order, if you are lucky you have explicit naming, but in many cases
you see just a pair of doubles or floats.
So, why is latitude, longitude more common - is it just bad luck, or is there
some logic or convention behind it?
Jaak
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