Thanks for the explanation!

Den söndag 4 december 2016 kl. 01:26:10 UTC+1 skrev Nigel Tao:
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:26 AM,  <sc...@doozee.org <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > A quick aside regarding the code that you posted. Postgres (bizarrely, 
> IMHO) 
> > stores longitude first, then latitude, so: 
>
> Well, the usual order is "latitude, longitude", but on the standard 
> visualization (North is 'up' on typical maps), latitude 
> (North-South-ness) is 'y' and longitude (East-West-ness) is 'x', and 
> the usual order (for 2D points in general, not geographic locations) 
> is "x, y", not "y, x". 
>

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