[Mapserver-users] RE: latitude and longitude

[Havard Tveite]

In Europe (in Norway, anyway) the tradition is to use x for
north and y for east.
I don't like it, but it is difficult to convince the surveying
and geodesy people to change to the more intuitive(?) x for
east and y for north.

Ed McNierney wrote:
> If you are working with a map in a "geographic" projection (where you assume latitude and longitude make a rectangular grid) then the longitude (east-west) is usually the X coordinate, and latitude is usually the Y coordinate.  There's no reason you couldn't turn the Earth so the equator was a vertical line up the middle of your map, but people just don't seem to do it that way.
> 
> 	- Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ryanne cruz [mailto:ryanne.cruz at up.edu.ph]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] RE: latitude and longitude
...
> im sorry if this had been asked before and i have read someone post that when 
> you query for x(geom) you are referring to the longitude and y(geom) with the 
> latitude. is this correct? because i am getting very confused! 
>  
> thanks for all the help. we will soon be uploading our site and i hope you'll 
> have the time to see it. i'll post next time our website.  
>  
> ryanne 

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