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Currently, the coordinates in RDF are presented as WKT literal in latitude-longitude order, e.g. for Seattle (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083) the representation is: ``` wdt:P625 "Point(47.6 -122.31666666667)"^^geo:wktLiteral ; ``` However, multiple sources suggest the default order used in most WKT implementations is longitude-latitude, e.g.: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/isaac/2008/03/05/the-upcoming-geography-coordinate-order-swap-a-faq/ https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=47664 sec 8.5.1 So we may want to switch the order. This will require full DB reload and GUI fixes, so we may time it to coincide with other geospatial features deployment.

Currently, the coordinates in RDF are presented as WKT literal in latitude-longitude order, e.g. for Seattle (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083) the representation is: ``` wdt:P625 "Point(47.6 -122.31666666667)"^^geo:wktLiteral ; ``` However, multiple sources suggest the default order used in most WKT implementations is longitude-latitude, e.g.: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/isaac/2008/03/05/the-upcoming-geography-coordinate-order-swap-a-faq/ https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=47664 sec 8.5.1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22536467/how-to-retrieve-latitude-and-longitude-from-geosparqls-wktliteral http://www.macwright.org/lonlat/ So we may want to switch the order. This will require full DB reload and GUI fixes, so we may time it to coincide with other geospatial features deployment.

Currently, the coordinates in RDF are presented as WKT literal in latitude-longitude order, e.g. for Seattle (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083) the representation is: ``` wdt:P625 "Point(47.6 -122.31666666667)"^^geo:wktLiteral ; ``` However, multiple sources suggest the default order used in most WKT implementations is longitude-latitude, e.g.: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/isaac/2008/03/05/the-upcoming-geography-coordinate-order-swap-a-faq/ https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=47664 sec 8.5.1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22536467/how-to-retrieve-latitude-and-longitude-from-geosparqls-wktliteral http://www.macwright.org/lonlat/ So we may want to switch the order. This will require full DB reload and GUI fixes, so we may time it to coincide with other geospatial features deployment.