what are the parms on addPoint?

[Joseph Norris]

I see this in the example:

$point->{x} = 469137.0000;
$point->{y} = 5271647.0000;
$shapefile->addPoint($point);

what are these numbers for x and y - pixels in the map? Or something else?

Thanks.

#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map chr
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);