Hi Jan,

The article Jody refers to is here...

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/The+axis+order+issue

JTS itself is "naive" about coordinates. It accepts whatever you give
it and treats coordinates as points in a Cartesian space. So lat-lon
coords become unreliable for JTS distance and area calculations when
the mapping region is large.

Michael

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