[PROJ] Supported geographical coordinate formats

[Andreas B]

Thanks for answering Charles.

I'm not sure if I understand. Why would 10W be interpreted as lat = -10?


Andreas

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:33 PM Charles Karney <charles at karney.com> wrote:
>
> One major usability issue with PROJ is that the hemisphere designators
> NESW *only* specify the sign of the coordinate.  Thus it's easy for
> 10W to be interpreted as lat = -10.  Fixing this would required some
> replumbing of PROJ since the two horizontal components would need to
> be decoded together.
>
> On 7/2/20 9:17 AM, Andreas B wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any formal description or definition of what kind of
> > geographical coordinate format the proj command line tools support
> > (input and output)?
> >
> > Several styles are presented in the docs, e.g.
> > (https://proj.org/apps/cs2cs.html#using-proj-strings)
> >
> > 45d15'33.1" 111.5W
> > 45d15.551666667N -111d30
> > +45.25919444444 111d30'000w
> >
> > Any preferred format?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andreas