[Marble-devel] Order of latitude and longitude in the UI

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi,

On Friday, 4. November 2011 19:36:48 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Thinking about it I could even imagine that the preferred lon-lat/lat-lon
> > order might be subject to i18n/l10n: Personally I rembember that early at
> > school we were taught that the "correct" order would be "Länge, Breite".
> > Then again looking into a Diercke World Atlas from 2009 (5th edition, the
> > Diercke is a popular school atlas in Germany) I see a description: "Jeder
> > Punkt auf der Erdoberfläche ist durch Angabe der Längen- und Breitengrade
> > genau festgelegt. Beispiel: La Paz 16°30' Süd, 68°09' West."  (note the
> > order of terms vs. actual example).
> Hehe, I here guess the author is simply mixing things up (as I did for

This is quite unlikely. I guess either the example got "updated" later on or 
they just didn't think of it that people might refer to the descriptional 
order to associate the numbers with the technical terms.
I still have a range of earlier atlases that I will look into for comparison 
and curiosity.

> So will make the reg expressions strings subject to QObject::tr(...).
> Is it okay to add some longer explanation into the disambiguation
> parameter, so translators know what to add there or who to ask? 

Yes.

> Might even
> put a link to a special Marble page on techbase.kde.org there, so that one
> can give more context or even have people put there some samples they
> found. 

Ok.

> I would also favor the example-based way.
> Also for the Angle notation in general, as I only knew the DMS one (without
> the name) before I started to scratch my items in Marble, "DMS or Radial?"
> would have put big question marks in my eyes.

There is no DMS vs. Radians (Radians isn't used on maps). I'd say we should 
just support:

* DMS,
* Decimal
* UTM
* MGRS

Best Regards,
Torsten

 
> Might have no time for a mockup/proposal for that until the hard feature
> freeze, so will not press to hard for this the following time. Still I
> would like to help on "fixing" that. Unless someone else beats me on this,
> surely welcome ;)
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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