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This just drives me nuts. Lat/Lon. That's the answer. In any kind of graphic design work if you're communicating with printers, pre-press, etc. you say Width x

This just drives me nuts. Lat/Lon. That's the answer. In any kind of graphic design work if you're communicating with printers, pre-press, etc. you say Width x Height. Like paper size. 8.5" x 11". But once in awhile, a client requests something that's described in height x width. Usually the giveaway is that billboards aren't 17 feet tall. But in some cases, if they're from the South, I know I have to ask them three times to make sure they're telling me width and height. The third time they'll get that width is the left to right size.

rdtsc 5y ago
> This just drives me nuts. Lat/Lon. That's the answer. In any kind of graphic design work if you're communicating with printers, pre-press, etc. you say Width x Height. To me that would make (lon,lat) preferable, then? Longitude would be the width/left-right/x-axis coordinate, and latitude be the height/up-down/y-axis coordinate? Or maybe I misunderstood, and you just highlighted that we every discipline should have it’s standard and as opposed to stating that geographical coordinates should match the printing and other domains?