[MS4W-Users] EPSG with 900913 ?

Yves Moisan yves.moisan at boreal-is.com
Wed Feb 3 08:41:35 EST 2010


> > <900913> +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0
> > +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +no_defs
> 
> at a guess, because it is not an official EPSG projection... 

Right.  I gather there is an official EPSG number for it now but 900913
is so rampant that I believe it should be included as a "de facto"
standard.

> 
> I think the 900913 is a clever way of trying to spell google with numbers.

Clever folks indeed ...


Yves




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