> The lat-lon ordering seems to prevail online ("latitude longitude"
> vs "longitude latitude" in google-> 16M vs 470k).
Perhaps because English says "north, south, east, west" for the
cardinal directions. Chinese uses "east, south, west, north". The
Google hits for jingdu weidu (longitude latitude) vs. weidu jingdu
(latitude longitude) in Simplified Chinese characters favor the former.
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Kian-Tat Lim, LSST Data Management, [log in to unmask]
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