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Yesterday I noticed that when I hover with the mouse across the prime meridian (around Greenwich), I noticed that the coordinates in the lower left corner were displayed wrong. When I am on the eastside of the prime meridian it reads: E 000° 00.001 and by moving further east, the longitude increases (as it should). Now when I moved westward the longitude also increased, but the cardinal direction remind east, so the coordinate read: E 000° 00.010 for being slightly west of the prime meridian. While keep moving west eventually you cross the 1° line and at that point the cardinal direction flips to west, so: W 001° 00.000.

I tried the same with the equator (moving from north to south) and the same thing happend. The coordinate only showed the S when I passed the S 001° latitude.

To me it seems there is a minor bug in rounding off integers in the code. It seems that when the degrees are rounded to zero by default E or S (for longitude and latitude, respectively) is chosen, but of course the sign of the coordinate should be taken into account as well. I am not sure whether this problem persist at any other point in the entire code. Should be easy to fix though.
in Bug reports by swirlynail (3.0k points)
edited by swirlynail
Really? I've been at Greenwich last week and checked the coordinates (for the virtual there) but have not checked, how they fluctuate, when I walked bejond the correct "0 meridian"
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that on the map on Project-GC the coordinates for your mouse cursor are displayed in the lower left corner. It are these that are shown wrong. There is nothing wrong with the actual prime meridian or equator (although we can have lengthy philosophical discussion on that).
Ahhh ... sorry, my mistake! I never noticed the coordinates on the map. :)

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