Easting or Westing

[Maple Leaf]

When you are giving a longitude West of the Greenwich Meridian line, should you refer to it as being an 'Easting' or a 'Westing'

(the actual coordinates are preceded with a W)

[Just Roger]

West of Grenwich with a W are westings (Shown as negative when not using E or W in the coords) The others, heading East from Grenwich, are eastings.

Northings, N, north of the equator are shown as positive and southings, S, south of the equator are shown as negative.

[Alan White]

When you are giving a longitude West of the Greenwich Meridian line, should you refer to it as being an 'Easting' or a 'Westing'

Why not just refer to it as a longitude?

[T.R.a.M.P.]

Why not just refer to it as a longitude?

It gets very confusing living very near the meridian :wacko: