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> "Lat/Lon is really the standard." [citation needed]
by rendall 5y ago
> "Lat/Lon is really the standard." [citation needed]
- K0balt 5y agoISO 6709 for starters.
- rendall 5y agoI learnt something today. It does indeed appear to be a nearly universal standard. Thank you!
- smaudet 5y agoI think culturally lat/lon is the standard - it is what looked right to me before I started working with geocoords. Cartographically, in terms of standards, that seems to be the case. I don't think because libraries have been written which are backwards, that there should be some popularity contest - that's too small a bubble, just makes programmers sound like entitled asshats... Even a govt. standard should not be the measuring stick - govts change policy with the wind, or different govts. The lon/lat programmers with the pitchforks are the upstart rebels here... Lat/Lon