[Proj] wgs84 northings and eastings

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:27 +0000, Mikael Rittri wrote:

> You write "transverse mercator", but it seems you mean 
> ordinary mercator (Web Mercator, to be specific). 

My mistake. I was doing other work at the same time with transverse
mercator. Parallel work is not always a good thing.

> So, you have to use a trick: use 
> 
>    +nadgrids=@null 

I remember the discussion a while back. Would I then remove the
+towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 as well? Or do I need both?

> instead. See 
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/FAQ#ChangingEllipsoidWhycantIconvertfromWGS84toGoogleEarthVirtualGlobeMercator

Following that link eventually led me to:
http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3395/

which it calls World Mercator. The definition is:

	+proj=merc +lon_0=0 +k=1 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs

Since my source data is defined as:

	+proj=latlong +datum=WGS84

perhaps this more suited to my original goal?



Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

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