[gdal-dev] Patch for GDAL Web Mercator Issue / trac 3962

[Stefano Iacovella]

2013/8/29 Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>

> 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 "

Kind Regards,

Stefano
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