[geotk] Convertion

theuns theunsheydenrych at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 08:29:47 EDT 2009


Thanks for the very useful information Cedric.

Where can i get this definition information?
For future purposes to check the what must come first.

Cédric Briançon wrote:
> Hi theuns,
> 
> the definition of the EPSG:4326 CRS specifies that the latitude comes 
> first, and the longitude after. 
> It is the opposite for the mercator 
> projection EPSG:3395. This explains the inversion of coordinates you get 
> in your DirectPosition object.
> 
> To fix that, you can for example use the crs "CRS:84", which is the same 
> as "EPSG:4326", but with the longitude in first, or instead of doing: 
> CoordinateReferenceSystem targetCRS = CRS.decode("EPSG:4326");
> do: CoordinateReferenceSystem targetCRS = CRS.decode("EPSG:4326", true);
> 
> The boolean will force the longitude axis in first, even if the CRS 
> defines the contrary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cédric.
> 
> theuns a écrit :
> > HI
> > I pasted some code on http://pastebin.com/m44dfe63c 
> >
> > The problem i have is, i convert a coordinate in EPSG:3395 to EPSG:4326,
> > but the result is turned around, by that i mean , i get the result as
> > y,x instead of x,y.
> >
> > The input values is 
> > GeneralDirectPosition(-7144442.991431108,-7277982.720580169)
> > The ouput is a DirectPosition2D
> > [-54.74691767204291, -64.17962335723159] = [y,x] and not [x,y] as i
> > suspected?
> >
> > What am i doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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