<p>Why would you expect them to be similar? There are different sets of coordinates.<br>
Your first set of coordinates looks like wgs84 but you set the srid to Google srid. <br>
It doesn't make sense.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On 20 May 2010 17:38, "Ronald Phillips" <<a href="mailto:rphillips@summitengineer.net">rphillips@summitengineer.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>

















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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">SELECT   </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">            ST_AsText(</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">                        ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-81.064544
40.28787)', 3857)</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">AS goog, </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">            ST_AsText(</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">                        ST_Transform(</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">                                    ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-81.064544
40.28787)', 3857)</span></font></p>

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4326)</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">AS gcs</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">3857 is “Google’s” SRID, and 4326 is a
fairly standard GPS SRID. I’m getting this:</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Goog: "POINT(-81.064544 40.28787)";</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Gcs: "POINT(-0.000728215188753794
0.000361912093851508)"</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What am I doing wrong, that they’re so different?</span></font></p>

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<p><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"">Ronald Phillips, B.S., M.S.</span></font></p>

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