Google Mercator EPSG:900913, in which init file to add it?
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Mathieu Rajerison
<mathieu.rajerison at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm using Google Mercator (EPSG:900913) for one purpose but it doesn't seem recognized by rgdal.. Where to add it please?
900913 was a 'cute' number used unofficially because it looks like 'google'. Eventually after a couple of false starts it has got an official EPSG code which is nowhere near 900913. Some discussion here: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/253/what-is-the-current-web-mercator-projection-code So you should use epsg:3857 from now on. I guess 900913 has been removed from the epsg database that rgdal uses. Not sure how you add it back, but if you reassign the proj4code of anything with 900913 to 3857 then they should all work the same. Note I'm saying 3857 several times in the email so I remember that it's now 3857... Barry