Adrian - Thanks for the reply. The example was from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-populate.html with the
example of:
INSERT INTO cities VALUES ('San Francisco', '(-194.0, 53.0)');
That is not a valid coordinate but it is clear that they are trying to
declare it as longitude (-194) for x and latitude (53) for y. Yes, I would
understand that it is up to other GIS clients to interpret those values as
coordinates but they would need to know which value is which (lat or long).
In the case above it would be easy to identify any value over 90 as being a
longitude value but what if the values were listed as 10,40. That would
represent two completely different points on the map if it were interpreted
as lat/long compared to long/lat. This is why I was asking the question.
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