[Geojson] coordinate order

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Sun Mar 9 07:23:23 PDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0000, Martin Daly wrote:
> For completeness should we also add:
> 
> "coordinate_direction": [1,-1]
> 
> or similar? That would allow south, west and down positive ordinates.  
> Some country-specific (mostly projected) CRS-s are like this.

How would a client use this information? Would OpenLayers somehow flip
the display so that down was up?

I don't know how people use things like this: using OpenLayers and
GeoServer as examples, how would this change the behavior of drawing,
for example, a line on top of a map tile?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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