[PROJ] Any EPSG code for visualization order WGS84(s)?

[Even Rouault]

On dimanche 6 septembre 2020 15:00:40 CEST Roger Bivand wrote:
> Thanks, Even and Alan,

Adding back the list

> 
> I didn't know about OGC:CRS84, and should have. However, I see the
> 
> confusing:
> > cat(wkt(CRS(SRS_string="urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84")), "\n")
> 
> GEOGCRS["WGS 84 (CRS84)",
>      DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984",
>          ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
>              LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
>      PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
>          ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>      CS[ellipsoidal,2],
>          AXIS["geodetic longitude (Lon)",east,
>              ORDER[1],
>              ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>          AXIS["geodetic latitude (Lat)",north,
>              ORDER[2],
>              ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>      USAGE[
>          SCOPE["unknown"],
>          AREA["World"],
>          BBOX[-90,-180,90,180]],
>      ID["OGC","CRS84"]]
> 
> usage node, with a counter-intuitive ordering of the bounding box. Is this
> a problem in terms of coordinate operation look-up? 

> Or are GEOGCRS BBOX
> minlat, minlon, maxlat, maxlon by definition, irrespecctive of axis order?

Exactly the later. See
http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/18-010r7/18-010r7.html#33

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