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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by mtmail on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:45AM (#34532180)
https://flipcoords.com/

The web tool will switch the position of latitude and longitude in text. It's a common issue in GIS industry as there's no agreement which order is the correct one (and tools/software want one or the other). The initial Show HN dicussion derailed into which order is the correct one, second-guessing why the tool could be any useful to anybody and it went downhill (well, flagged) from there.

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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by atonse on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:45AM (#34533169)
Nicely implemented and simple.

Love the irony of a whole debate when your tool isn't taking an opinion, but instead letting people navigate (pun proudly intended) those two worlds.

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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by mighty_donkey on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:54AM (#34534366)
I love it!
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by geuis on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:58PM (#34538731)
Not sure it's working. I keep hitting the flip button but nothing is happening.
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by freyfogle on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:07PM (#34538861)
do you have js enabled?
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by nonethewiser on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:44PM (#34540492)
Same
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by _Microft on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:56PM (#34541126)
Are you on mobile? There is a second column with flipped coordinates that is offscreen if the phone is in portrait mode. I suggest that you try to browse the page in landscape mode.
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by csarva on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:20PM (#34541696)
Hitting flip simply takes the entered (or default) coords and displays two columns of info below, maps and data about the location. Hitting it again doesn’t toggle anything further. Slightly confusing at first.
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Re:Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chan... by a_t48 on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:50PM (#34551667)
Oh man, I wish I had seen this three years ago.
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