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Re: Equations for Mercator projections?
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2003 Apr 14, 22:10 -0700
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2003 Apr 14, 22:10 -0700
There is a US Army Corp of Engineer report titled
"Handbook for Transformation of Datums, Projections, Grids and Common Coordinate
Systems." Example 8.6 on page 90 contains a worked example of converting the
geodetic latitude and longitude in WGS84 to Mercator coordinates. The
report can be downloaded from the Defense Techical Information Center at the
following link:
Search for this text string: ADA307127
The document is over 6M so it may take a while but
it will be worth it.
