[QGIS-Developer] Vote for Lat Lon Tools Default Coordinate Order - YX or XY

[C Hamilton]

I appreciate everyone's ideas and opinions. I think that for now I will
leave Lat Lon Tools as it currently operates, but I will look over the
suggestions to see if I can make sure the options are as clear as possible.

Thanks once again for your input.

Calvin


On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 3:52 AM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 11/20/20 6:10 PM, C Hamilton wrote:
> > It was suggested to me that the default coordinate order in the Lat Lon
> Tools plugin for coordinate capture and zoom-to tools should be "longitude,
> latitude" or "X, Y". Originally, Lat Lon Tools was designed to work with
> on-line maps which are generally "latitude, longitude" order.
> >
> > You can always go into the plugin settings and specify which order you
> want and that order will be preserved everytime you launch QGIS. The
> default order is only applicable the first time you install "Lat Lon Tools"
> or if you do a reset to defaults in the Lat Lon Tools settings menu,
> >
> > Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "longitude, latitude" or "X, Y"
> when the plugin is first installed or reset to default values?
> >
> > Who prefers Lat Lon Tools to default to "latitude, longitude (Google map
> order)" or "Y, X" when the plugin is first installed or reset to default
> values?
>
> I'm a little late on the table :-) As descision already cast:
>
> https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-latlontools-plugin/issues/53#issuecomment-731070055
> and fine with it, just want to add:
>
> I'm not a geo-guy by original trade and working with scientists/911 peeps
> at the moment, who favour the math-way of exchanching coordinates (2
> dimensional values): X,Y.
>
> If I were 'boss geo', I'd never use lonlat or latlon terms, only use
> (decimal!) degrees or x,y :-)
> (people tend to mix lat lon up all the time, they never do with x,y).
>
> In my use-case, the Lat Lon Tools plugin is used in a very pluriform,
> international environment where coordinates from all kind of crs's are to
> be mixed/converted (often one pair at a time...). Why would you use YX in
> one crs and XY in other crs's? It's just not very efficient to have that
> choice. Just like meters/feet, point/comma delimeters in numbers etc etc.
> This screams for conversion issues ...
>
> Ah, and while on it, let's all speak Esparanto (and keep the number of
> QGIS translation builds low) ;-)
>
> Korajn salutojn,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
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