Peter,
Whilst I think it is common practice to refer to the coordinates as
Lat Lon, I would argue that in a professional system it only matters
that there is clarity (I am a licensed pilot).
So when using spherical coordinates people may refer to a location as
North 1° East 43°, this would be professional. 22˚118˚ might seem
OK, but people who only work in one hemisphere might erroneously think
it to be West of the prime meridian. A reference to 14° -26°, would
however be obviously ambiguous.
Having said that, I do believe that it is standard practice to always
give eastings before northings (X before Y) in Cartesian coordinate
systems.
Cheers,
Ben
n 10/07/2009, at 9:22 PM, Peter Kukuča wrote:
Well I have been constantly criticized from my colleagues for using
lon first, lat second. I have been told I am the only person on the
planet to do so and that all professional systems use lat, lon
instead.
2009/7/10 Pavel Iacovlev <[email protected]>
Yes they are in "reverse order", there is no standard for lat or lon
should be first (as I know), blame wkb/wkt :)
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