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@joas really? I've always heard people give coordinates in lat/long not long/lat
There's no x and y on earth -
@j4cobgarby It's used in programs and libraries quite widely. One reasoning is that it's easier to hop between different coordinate-systems. It's never shown to users in that format.
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@joas oh that makes sense, I've never done any programming with geolocations
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@j4cobgarby there is, but XYZ coordinates are in a Cartesian system and don't translate in any obvious way to lat/long polar coordinates, especially when your GPS device has already corrected for the WGS84 geodesic and that's not documented anywhere and... What were we talking about?
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public Geopoint(double latitude, double longitude)
{
Latitude = latitude;
Longitude = Longitude;
}
Me: "why is the longitude always 0"
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Good job that didn't make it onto Nuget... oh, wait, yeah it did.
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