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When plotted on a mercator-style map, longitude corresponds to X and latitude corresponds to Y, with X, Y being the usual order for coordinates. (That's my gues
by trothamel 5y ago
When plotted on a mercator-style map, longitude corresponds to X and latitude corresponds to Y, with X, Y being the usual order for coordinates. (That's my guess, anyway.)
- labster 5y agoThe X and Y you describe are also conventions based on putting north at the top of a map, and really only map one-to-one in Mercator projection anyway.