Current coordinate system for miner location is inverted Completed

Dear Foreman,

Since you asked for ideas on how to improve Pickaxe here is one: change/update the coordinate system that you use in the Site Map.  The following presents details of the current system, the problem and potential solutions

Current system:  As you are aware, currently the Site Map lays out a visual representation of the miner room using a coordinate system that starts with the coordinate (0,0)  to indicate the position of a miner in the top-left position.   The position (0,0) becomes the starting point with all other positions noted as a relevant to this starting point.  Identifying this location as (0,0) is arbitrary by Pickaxe but it can not be changed by the user.  Pickaxe then uses the left-hand  number to indicate the row and counts higher as the rows go downward.  Similarly, the right-hand number counts the stacks and gets higher going to the right.  

Problem: This system is essentially backwards from the Algebraic x-y coordinate system which makes the Pickaxe system inverted relative to every x-y coordinate system used in the world.  Your system appears to be built on the assumption that miners placed in racks are installed in a manner starting from the upper-left and then working downward and to the right.  My experience is that miner racks are filled from the bottom-up, not the top-down.  This makes identifying the miner position from the top-down ineffective and highly subject to error and frequent change.  Also, as most people use are familiar with the Algebraic  (x, y) coordinate system that starts from the bottom-left when noting a position which makes using Pickaxe's inverted system highly subject to error by the  user. This error is almost wholly caused by Pickaxe's arbitrary inverted coordinate system.

Observation: My first impression of the Pickaxe designers went out of their way to not use the Algebraic system or that your designers failed Algebra, badly.  Either way, its baffling to me and I can not believe that the Pickaxe system got through your system design review before launch.  I've seen screen shots of Pickaxe shown as examples of, “can you believe they built this dumb feature into the design? lol."  

Solution: implement the Algebraic (x, y) coordinate system that the entire world is familiar with and already uses. 

Benefit: This would help your users.

Bonus:  this would help make you guys look smarter.

Thank you.

Greg Tsouprake PE

Vice President 

Data Center Equipment and Support

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