[Esip-documentation] ACDD 1.3 issue: geospatial_bounds, geospatial_vertical_units - x y vs. y x ordering

[Aleksandar Jelenak via Esip-documentation]

Hi Bob,

On 10/10/14, 12:31 PM, “Bob Simons" <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>
wrote:
>I am thoroughly confused about the x y vs. y x (or lon lat vs lat lon)
>ordering
>within WKT Geometries.

Why do you assume that x always means longitude and y always means
latitude?


> Some people assert that the ordering is CRS-dependent.

I found this explanation very helpful:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/CRS_Specification

>I'm not disputing that CRS's, in other situations, may have a preferred
>ordering 
>(can someone please tell me where they are defined?),

http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?wkt=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Note the two “AXIS” lines.

	-Aleksandar