[Qgis-user] Vote for Lat Lon Tools Default Coordinate Order - YX or XY

[John Helly]

How about just make it a switchable option?  I think GMT battled this
unresolvable subjectivity eons ago.
J.

On 11/20/20 17:25, Brent Wood wrote:
> 1. "lat/lon"  is the world wide order for degree based maps (esp in
> the navigation space)
> 2. "Lat Lon is the name of the tool,
>
> It doesn't make any sense (to me) to have lon/lat as the default order
> for this tool. I know some other GIS tools use lon lat to be
> consistent with northings & eastings which are XY, but with this tool
> being all about lat/lon, I figure that is how it should be.
>
> One option - if you are really concerned about this. Prompt on first
> use to set the user's preferred default? Make it impossible for the
> user to use the plugin without having first chosen what they want the
> order to be. So it doesn't have a default, just a user selected order.
>
> Cheers
>
> My 02c
>
>
>
> > 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 just checking to see if I should make this change or not.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Calvin
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>   Roxo
>
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