Order of latitude and longitude in geographic coordination

[gihan9a]

When I was using this library I noticed that the order of the latitude and longitude coordination used in the reverse format. i.e longitude before latitude.

https://github.com/StephanGeorg/staticmaps#addmarker-options

As I more research on this matter I found the coordination standard order is Latitude, Longitude format.

ISO 6709 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709#Order,_sign,_and_units

There's a StackOverflow question asking the same matter and the answers are leading to use latitude first in the order. https://stackoverflow.com/q/7309121/625144

So I'm curious to know why latitude and longitude are used in longitude, latitude order 🤔

[StephanGeorg]

Hi @gihan10

When I was using this library I noticed that the order of the latitude and longitude coordination used in the reverse format. i.e longitude before latitude.

No, it is not in reverse order because there is no order for coordinates. See more lon lat lon lat

ISO 6709 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709#Order,_sign,_and_units

The ISO standard specifically only applies to form inputs, not storage mechanisms, software or formats.

I'm using geojson internally (see example) and thus it's in the right order.

But I totally agree with you it would be much easier when there was only one single order in every system.

[gihan9a]

Thank you for the explanation. Maybe majority of tools that I've used were using latitude, longitude order and that's why I was feeling it's in reverse order.