[GRASS-user] projection issue

[Moritz Lennert]

On 24/03/14 14:03, Vincent Bain wrote:
> Le lundi 24 mars 2014 à 13:49 +0100, Moritz Lennert a écrit :
>
>> You're not wrong. The difference comes from the GRASS file
>> /etc/ogr_csv/pcs.csv in which there is a specific rule set for 3857.
>>
>> Don't know why, though.
>>
>> Moritz
>
> Thank you Moritz for your reply. Yes, I finally tried to make a new
> location with a proj.4 chain rather than the epsg code picker, and it
> works fine.
>
> The source of this "error" is very surprising, as much as the few
> reactions it's been triggering !

Well, not sure this is really an "error", or rather an issue about how 
exactly to define this "pseudo-mercator" projection system.

In any case, it seems to me to be more a gdal issue than a grass issue.

I guess https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3962 is related to this.

Moritz