Movies often contain the juiciest part at the end: the bloopers. This is so popular, the even animated cartoons include such (fake) bloopers. To make data management sexier, OpenEarth starts a blooper collection here:
- The Somalia waters are well-known to the Dutch, not only because their navy protects merchant vessels against the pirates, but also because it is the place where you end up if you swap lat-lon. What a pity we ever decided to say "lat-lon" (y-x) whereas for projections we say "x-y". The OGC WMS standard has to include a special case for this: the WGS84 coordinate system EPSG:4326 lead to so many x-y swaps, a separate coordinate system CRS84 had to be introduced where the order was explicitly specified. It is also a pity that this very system EPSG:4326 is the most used system in the world...
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