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I have a lot of coordinates I want to convert from Sweref99tm to WGS84 for display on google maps. I'm using gdal installed on my laptop:

$ echo "6782384 599140" | gdaltransform -s_srs EPSG:3006 -t_srs EPSG:4326
64.1363442998149 3.53655177487795 0

But according to several sites online where I input the same coordinates, I get 61.163396, 16.842654 returned instead.

Anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

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  • Give coordinates in order easting- northing.
    – user30184
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 13:06

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Gdaltrasform takes coordinates in longitude-latitude or easting-northing order. That is how GDAL always handles coordinates internally and perhaps that is so self-evident for GDAL developers that it is not documented in http://www.gdal.org/gdaltransform.html. All you need to do is to flip the order of the coordinates

gdaltransform -s_srs EPSG:3006 -t_srs EPSG:4326
599140 6782384
16.8426538013697 61.1633955987023 0
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