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. ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1