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I was always taught in school that you "crawl before you climb" - so on graphs x is crawling, y is climbing, on maps lat is crawling, lon is climbing. Which th
by bennyp101 5y ago
I was always taught in school that you "crawl before you climb" - so on graphs x is crawling, y is climbing, on maps lat is crawling, lon is climbing.
Which then leads to the confusion when doing spatial stuff, as it swaps between a lot of JS libraries (for showing) and backend systems (for querying)
- gspr 5y ago> I was always taught in school that you "crawl before you climb" - so on graphs x is crawling, y is climbing, on maps lat is crawling, lon is climbing. What does this mean?
- Rebelgecko 5y agoHorizontal coordinate comes before vertical
- gspr 5y agoBut latitude goes vertically on most maps. And they write "lat is crawling".
- orthoxerox 5y agoAre you a Tolkien dwarf? Lon is crawling, lat is climbing on regular human maps.