[GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

[G. Allegri]

Hi Bulent,
the officiale EPSG for Spherical Mercator is EPSG:3785 [1] , though
you can find EPSG.900913 too (this is depracted now, as far as I
know).

giovanni

[1] http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3785/



2010/7/10 Bulent Arikan <bulent.arikan at gmail.com>:
> Dear List,
> I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the fact
> that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between GE and other
> projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if anyone knows whether
> there is an EPSG code for KML format so that I can create a LOCATION in
> Grass using this code and avoid/minimize such distortions when I import
> vector files.
> Thanks,
>
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> BÜLENT
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