I appreciate everyone's ideas and opinions. I think that for now I will leave Lat Lon Tools as it currently operates, but I will look over the suggestions to see if I can make sure the options are as clear as possible.
Thanks once again for your input. Calvin On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 3:52 AM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmaili...@duif.net> wrote: > On 11/20/20 6:10 PM, C Hamilton wrote: > > It was suggested to me that the default coordinate order in the Lat Lon > Tools plugin for coordinate capture and zoom-to tools should be "longitude, > latitude" or "X, Y". Originally, Lat Lon Tools was designed to work with > on-line maps which are generally "latitude, longitude" order. > > > > You can always go into the plugin settings and specify which order you > want and that order will be preserved everytime you launch QGIS. The > default order is only applicable the first time you install "Lat Lon Tools" > or if you do a reset to defaults in the Lat Lon Tools settings menu, > > > > Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "longitude, latitude" or "X, Y" > when the plugin is first installed or reset to default values? > > > > Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "latitude, longitude (Google map > order)" or "Y, X" when the plugin is first installed or reset to default > values? > > I'm a little late on the table :-) As descision already cast: > > https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-latlontools-plugin/issues/53#issuecomment-731070055 > and fine with it, just want to add: > > I'm not a geo-guy by original trade and working with scientists/911 peeps > at the moment, who favour the math-way of exchanching coordinates (2 > dimensional values): X,Y. > > If I were 'boss geo', I'd never use lonlat or latlon terms, only use > (decimal!) degrees or x,y :-) > (people tend to mix lat lon up all the time, they never do with x,y). > > In my use-case, the Lat Lon Tools plugin is used in a very pluriform, > international environment where coordinates from all kind of crs's are to > be mixed/converted (often one pair at a time...). Why would you use YX in > one crs and XY in other crs's? It's just not very efficient to have that > choice. Just like meters/feet, point/comma delimeters in numbers etc etc. > This screams for conversion issues ... > > Ah, and while on it, let's all speak Esparanto (and keep the number of > QGIS translation builds low) ;-) > > Korajn salutojn, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > >
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