Projection Help GPS vs National Atlas

[Rick Levine]

I've been bitten by that so many times.  Everyone says "lat/long", but
OpenGIS defined all of the interfaces as long/lat.  Go figure.

Rick

UMN MapServer Users List <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU> wrote on
03/30/2005 08:19:24 AM:

> James Goddard wrote:
>
> >I'm a little confused by all of the projection stuff.  Any help would be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> Ok, I figured this one out.  It wasn't a projection problem, it turns
> out that even though the projection is latlong the long needs to be
> stored first in the shapefile.  Go figure.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> James