[Proj] Google Mercator Projection

[Christopher Barker]

Hi,

Craig Bruce wrote:
> I am having a problem converting coordinate values from WGS84 Geographic to
> the Mercator projection that Google Maps uses. 

There was a fair bit of talk about this at the FOSS4G conference, I only 
caught bits of it. This may help:

http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/238/understanding-googles-projection-slightly-anyway/

There was talk of a new EPSG code for the google Mercator projection:

http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/243/google-projection-900913/


-Chris


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