statusline longitude and latitude icons are mixed up

[wiktorn]

When checked our status line (bottom left) I saw, that when I move the mouse horizontally then the position marked with vertical red line changes and vice versa.

Checking images/statusline/lat.png I see an icon with horizontal line and images/statusline/lon.png has a vertical line.

Shouldn't we exchange this icons one with another?

It's so for so long that I'm not sure if I'm correct :)

[bastiK]

See also #10773. The idea of the current icons is to show a line of constant latitude / longitude as a symbol for lat. / lon.

I agree it can be misinterpreted but simply swapping the icons doesn't improve the situation imho.

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to bastiK:

a line of constant latitude / longitude as a symbol for lat. / lon.

I also interpret it this way. In my opinion we should keep the current icons.

What I just noticed is that the lat/lon numbers don't update when you move the map with the keyboard (ctrl + arrow keys).

[wiktorn]

Never thought about like this.

My understanding is like this, that you always highlight the dimension that changes. This approach scales well if you have more than 2 dimensions. Highlighting what remains constant is less informative if you have for example 12 dimensions.

I checked some other programs but I did not find one, that shows coordinates separately annotated with different icons.

But I guess that this would need testing on our users to decide best solution. Maybe they are already accustomed to current solution so introducing a change will only result in confusion.

[Klumbumbus]

• ​image search for latitude gives images with horizontal lines
• ​image search for longitude gives images with vertical lines

[wiktorn]

Ok, I asked at home the same question and I stand corrected :-)