[fghjkoi8uygt]

You do mind but if the customer insists you have no choice.

My customers use metres, feet and statute feet, they work in degrees, deg/min/sec and grads. They work in X,Y,Z or N,E,Z (don't get me started on South Africa)

Then you have day/month/year and month/day/year, then you have Canadians that work in both.

It's easy for a web 2.0 site with no actual customers.

[joubert]

What is N,Y,Z and how does it relate to SA?

[nitrogen]

A Google search for "n e z coordinates" revealed that N stands for north or northings, E stands for east or eastings. Basically, it looks like they just swap X and Y.

[joubert]

I'm South African and I've never seen that used. Perhaps it is by people in a particular industry?

[fghjkoi8uygt]

South Africa has a novel coordinate system, at least for people who expect North to be at the top and east on the X axis.

[fghjkoi8uygt]

Yes just a simple swap, except every dialog, grid control, status bar and tooltip has to keep track of which way round they are.

[nitrogen]

I didn't mean to say it would be easy to support in any given software package :)