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Your dataset is tilted 90° and in some other part of the globe: you probably swapped latitude and longitude.

Tip: latitude sounds like "altitude" so it has to be the y coordinate

It's such misnomers. You'd think the "lat" prefix comes from lateral and means an axis that goes sideways, but that's not the case.

Not to mention longitude and latitude are most often used for spherical coordinate systems, as angles, where x, y, z are usually meant for Cartesian coordinates, as distances, in a projected representation.

As a French nitpick, the "sideways axis" is actually not going sideways, but pointing right at us :)

There's an unavoidable duality (An axis is definitionally perpendicular to the lines of constant value)

The core of the problem is that the system talks about "lines" too much. In regular math, we have axes, but we don't think much about a point being at the "intersection of the x=3 line and the y=5 line", it's just "horizontally 3 and vertically 5". But in GIS we visualize a full grid, with "lines of latitude" instead of "lateral deviation".

Very easy to do, especially if you are dealing with both lat/lon and other coordinate systems that may use a different order.

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