[Geojson] [OSGeo-Standards] EPSG + Coordinate Ordering (WasRe:GeoJSON '1.0'?)

Norman Vine nhv at cape.com
Fri Mar 14 08:39:44 PDT 2008


Martin Daly writes:
> 
> > Okay, according to mpd, I'm wrong: mpd says that there is 
> an *implied*
> > claim that "Lat is X" -- which means that my entire 
> argument just went
> > out the window, and you're right. However, I didn't knwo that until
> > about 30 seconds ago.
> 
> What I meant to say to Christopher, but did not express very 
> well, is that the non-geodesists among us mostly think of 
> lat/lon (or lon/lat) as positions on a Plate Carrée-projected 
> map, not on the surface of an ellipsoid.

Ah...  but apps like Google Earth are 'finally' changing that !!!

Cheers

Norman




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