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joubert
5860 days ago
What is N,Y,Z and how does it relate to SA?
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nitrogen
5860 days ago
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.
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joubert
5860 days ago
I'm South African and I've never seen that used. Perhaps it is by people in a particular industry?
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fghjkoi8uygt
5859 days ago
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.
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fghjkoi8uygt
5859 days ago
Yes just a simple swap, except every dialog, grid control, status bar and tooltip has to keep track of which way round they are.
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nitrogen
5859 days ago
I didn't mean to say it would be easy to support in any given software package :)
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