the age old rivalry

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Originally Posted by Toehammer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Marty, you're not thinking 3rd dimensionally! Latitude and longitude use spherical coordinates man!

Ok you're right, it's technically Φ and Θ, and not Y and X. But projected onto a 2D map, it essentially becomes a rectangular coordinate system. Thus the grid on an EQatlas map functions similarly to the grid on, say, a USGS quadrangle, and I don't think that it was a mistake.

There's really no reason to assume that EQ uses X and Y coordinates, and not spherical ones projected into two dimensions. /loc returns unitless numbers.