On 03/06/2014 06:02 PM, Serge Monkewitz wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Kian-Tat Lim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
> If we really aren't allowed to use 经度 and and 纬度 as C++ identifiers, then my vote goes to lon, lat.
Okay, lon, lat it is.
(I appreciated the segue into Chinese language conventions, though. Do I
detect a groundswell of support for migrating LSST vocabulary towards
Chinese? :)
-Daniel
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