> Indeed messy. Look at the WKT2 representation of projinfo -o WKT2_2018 > EPSG:3857: projection on the ellipsoid "WGS 84", not on a sphere.
as does the authority says: https://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?wkt=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3857 > I don't understand "lying on the ellipsoid definition (using the Sphere)", > it should be a sphere with radius 6378137, no? What I mean is that in the following "+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +nadgrids=@null" we use a clever hack to use the standard Mercator projection to simulate the ""Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator" by speciyfing the sphere as an ellipsoid with the a & b parameters, and using +nadgrids=@null which is interpreted by PROJ as "this sphere is equivalent to WGS84 for the purpose of datum transformations". Otherwise if you transformed from another datum than WGS84, you might get a incorrect datum transformation... -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
