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How about just make it a switchable option? I think GMT battled
this unresolvable subjectivity eons ago.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/20/20 17:25, Brent Wood wrote:<br>
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wide order for degree based maps (esp in the navigation space)<br>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2. "Lat Lon is the name of
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It doesn't make any sense
(to me) to have lon/lat as the default order for this tool.
I know some other GIS tools use lon lat to be consistent
with northings & eastings which are XY, but with this
tool being all about lat/lon, I figure that is how it should
be. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">One option - if you are
really concerned about this. Prompt on first use to set the
user's preferred default? Make it impossible for the user to
use the plugin without having first chosen what they want
the order to be. So it doesn't have a default, just a user
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cheers<br>
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> It was suggested to me that the default coordinate
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> Lon Tools plugin for coordinate capture and zoom-to
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> "longitude, latitude" or "X, Y". Originally, Lat
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> longitude" order.<br clear="none">
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> You can always go into the plugin settings and
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> you want and that order will be preserved everytime
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> Lon Tools" or if you do a reset to defaults in the
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> Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "longitude,
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> Y" when the plugin is first installed or reset to
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> Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "latitude,
longitude (Google<br clear="none">
> map order)" or "Y, X" when the plugin is first
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> I'm just checking to see if I should make this
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