Re: Incorrect re-projection from EPSG:4326 to 3857

Helmut Kudrnovsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.grass.user
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Zhiyu (Drew) Li wrote
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> 
> I was trying to re-project a EPSG:4326 coordinate into EPSG:3857 using
> GRASS, but I found GDAL gave me a different result.
> 
> GRASS (7.2.2):
> 
> Re-project this " -111.648251 40.246882" lon-lat pair into a existing
> location with EPSG:3857 projection
> 
> m.proj -i input=in4326.txt
> 
> -12428626.45 4874271.67
> 
> 
> 
> GDAL (2.2):
> 
> gdaltransform -s_srs EPSG:4326 -t_srs EPSG:3857
> 
> -111.648251 40.246882
> 
> -12428626.4492796 4901883.62422139 0
> 
> 
> 
> Results on X axis are almost the same, but the offset along Y is pretty
> big.
> 
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.

have a look into a related ticket:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2229

in my experience EPSG:3857 isn't the best projection for analysis.




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best regards
Helmut
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