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Re: Format of Pioint datatype.... lat/long or long/lat??

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On 12/31/2013 2:34 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
point is just x,y, it doesn't understand the spherical lat/long math
(unless you install PostGIS and use its Geometry types which are fully
aware of spherical coords), that said, Latitude is generally used as X
(left/right, aka east/west), while Longitude is Y (up/down aka north/south)

I thought it was the other way around?


arrrgh, you're right. LONGITUDE is east/west, LATITUDE Is north/south. so, its X = long, Y = lat.

doy!

sittin here at 37N


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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast



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