[postgis-users] why a longitude like 180 are not valid in WGS84 in postgis ?

[Guido Lemoine]

try POINT (158.93 -54.51)

Notation is in X Y = LON LAT! 158.93 is far beyond the North Pole :-)

GL

Norbert wrote:

>Hi all,
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>Can you explain to me why a point like POINT(-54.51 158.93) is not valid in wgs84 / srid 4326 in PostGIS and make a conflict "enforce_srid_coordinates" ?
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>What's the error and solution ?
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>thanks in advance,
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>Norbert
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