Le jeudi 29 août 2013 23:05:44, Stefano Iacovella a écrit : > 2013/8/29 Even Rouault <[email protected]> > > > My main question is : how sure are we about the projection name > > "Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere" to be the appropriate one for "standard" WKT > > ? Is > > there some reference from that ? The fact that ESRI uses it doesn't make > > it necesserarily a standard (although it can serve as a base if there's > > no alternative). > > According to http://epsg-registry.org/, not an ISO standard but quite a de > facto standard, EPSG:3857 is "WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator "
Well this is the name of the projected coordinate system. But here we are talking more about the projection method (sorry for being pedantic...). The EPSG registry would suggest "Popular Visualisation Pseudo-Mercator" for it. > > Kind Regards, > > Stefano > --------------------------------------------------- > 41.95581N 12.52854E > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanoiacovella > > http://twitter.com/#!/Iacovellas -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
