javascript Programming Glossary: mercator

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237187/openlayers-vs-google-maps

The biggest pitfall I've run into is working with the Web Mercator Google projection. It can be a pain to display vector data that..

Example images for code and mark-up Q&As

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19209650/example-images-for-code-and-mark-up-qas

px JPEGs x 4. Displayed here at 1 2 size. Tiles This Mercator map of Earth can be tiled left right. Originally seen on this..

Mercator longitude and latitude calculations to x and y on a cropped map (of the UK)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2103924/mercator-longitude-and-latitude-calculations-to-x-and-y-on-a-cropped-map-of-the

longitude and latitude calculations to x and y on a cropped.. ellipse x y 2 2 However I haven't been able to implement a Mercator projection on these values. The plots are reasonably accurate.. it's worthwhile to keep in mind that not all flat maps are Mercator projections. Without knowing more about that map in particular..

Convert long/lat to pixel x/y on a given picure

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2651099/convert-long-lat-to-pixel-x-y-on-a-given-picure

Google Maps then chances are they are using a spherical Mercator projection . The geographic coordinate system your latitude.. your data is in these coordinate systems. The spherical Mercator projection defines a coordinate pair in meters for the surface.. of the image. Convert the WGS lat longs to the spherical Mercator projection. There conversion tools out there my favorite is..