nsat / pypredict

Spire port of predict open-source tracking library
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Longitude is provided inverse to every other API and software #62

Open 777arc opened 1 year ago

777arc commented 1 year ago

Awesome software, but myself (and several other users based on issues in this repo) have wasted time debugging all to find out that the longitude needs to be provided with west positive. This is mentioned in the docs, but the issue is it's the opposite from every other piece of software and API out there. Not only that but in the first paragraph on the Wikipedia page for Longitude - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude it mentions east being positive. I know you don't want to make an API change at this point but surely there is a solution here so more folks don't get caught up in this issue.