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FlipCoords – lat, lng lng, lat
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- freyfogle 4y agoAuthor here. I've wasted years of my life reformatting coordinates to and from lat/lng to lng/lat or into named parameters. Enough! We (@OpenCage) built a thing: flipcoords.com
- nneonneo 4y agoThis would be more useful if it would provide a hint about where the location is. Usually, that's what you need to determine which format is more reasonable. Yes, you can go check it on a map, but it'd be faster to see it on the site itself!
- freyfogle 4y agoyes, that is known as reverse geocoding (exactly what our API does). The challenge is then people will crawl the site at massive volume to get free geocoding. But still perhaps you are right, perhaps we could put the country or region to at least show approximate location.
- anamexis 4y agoShowing a lat/lng point on a map isn't geocoding.
- aimor 4y agoI'm glad they acknowledged the lng vs lon issue, it was really bothering me. Hope this site grows to include +/-, E/W N/W, 0-360, and decimal minutes as well.
- aendruk 4y agoReally curious about the use case for this. It seems so trivial I was looking for signs that it was a joke/statement piece. Am I reading it right? A website that reorders two numbers?
- freyfogle 4y agoyes. It is just a little tool for people who work in geospatial, where every other tool needs those two numbers in a slightly different format. Here's some good background on the problem (linked in the FAQ) https://macwright.com/lonlat/ https://macwright.com/lonlat/
- mtmail 4y agoThere's no standard among GIS tools https://macwright.com/lonlat/ https://macwright.com/lonlat/ It's similar to tools that convert colors, hex <=> int, URL encoding or such. Of course one could write a script or copy&paste into Excel and another methods to recorder the numbers. I'm biased, I work with coordinates a lot.
- lostfocus 4y agoI use it quite often, especially to get the json strings. It's a small tool, nothing groundbreaking, but useful for a certain target group nonetheless.