[PROJ] Easting-Northing vs Northing-Easting

[Javier Jimenez Shaw]

Hi PROJ community

A few days ago I asked this in Mastodon:

Question:
Do you know why some **projected** coordinate reference systems use axis
order Northing-Easting?
Is that a historical reason?
(The most common case nowadays is Easting-Northing)

It's even more confusing when Northing uses abbreviation X and Easting uses
Y.

Please, replay if you know.

Bonus for westing-southing ;)

-Edit- Clarification: it is about projected coordinates, in meters or feet;
not about lat-lon

https://mapstodon.space/@jjimenezshaw/112334199718200963


In this replay there are some examples of fancy axis orderings:
https://mapstodon.space/@jjimenezshaw/112339005590088608

Does anybody here has any clue?

Thanks.
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