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

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Fri Mar 14 09:23:48 PDT 2008


Keith Jenkins wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Martin Daly <Martin.Daly at cadcorp.com> wrote:
>>  Ah... but KML 2.x is explicitly longitude then latitude.
> 
> There is clearly a widespread desire to use WGS84 coordinates that are
> ordered as lon, lat.  Does it make sense (or is it even possible) to
> simply request that EPSG or OGC define this as a new CRS (getting its
> own unique identifier), which could then be publicized amongst the
> geoweb community?
> 
> Keith

Keith, the proposed OGC URN scheme aims to do that with
urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84.

Sean



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