[MetaCRS] EPSG:3785

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Oct 7 09:21:54 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:17:31PM +0200, bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> does anyone know what happened to EPSG:3785 (the Google Maps projection)?
> 
> It used to be in the EPSG database, but now it's gone, and the only thing
> I can find is in the EPSG database SQL scripts:

Right. It's now 3857 instead of 3785. So far as I can tell, nothing about
how it's represented or handled in WKT or in any other way changed. (Though
perhaps they decided to remove the snarky comment in the description.)

-- Chris

> INSERT INTO epsg_deprecation VALUES ( 1067,
> '2009-02-10',
> 2008.114,
> 'Coordinate Reference System',
> 3785,
> 3857,
> 'OGP revised its approach to description of Popular Visualisation CRS.' );
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> MetaCRS mailing list
> MetaCRS at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/metacrs

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


More information about the MetaCRS mailing list