What number comes first latitude or longitude? The answer is pretty simple – it depends on what software/library you are using.
Here is compiled list of popular desktop/web/formats/programming libraries and the axis order they are using.
This list was compiled after some time of using those packages and of course fixing bugs when you passing tuple of coordinates in latitude, longitude format to package which is using (surprise!) longitude, latitude order, that’s was a fun night!
| Latitude, Longitude | Longitude, Latitude |
| GeoRSS | PostGIS |
| Leaflet | GeoJSON |
| Google Maps API | KML |
| Apple MapKit | Shapefile |
| Bing Maps API | WKT |
| OpenStreetMap | WKB |
| HERE maps | OpenLayers |
| ArcGIS API | |
| Mapbox API | |
| Redis | |
| Mapnik | |
| QGIS | |
| SpatiaLite | |
| MySQL spatial | |
| Oracle spatial |
In case you found something wrong or want to add new entry to the table above, just leave comment and I fix/add entry.
