EPSG:3785 DEPRECATED

Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator -- Spherical Mercator (deprecated EPSG code wrongly defined)

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Deprecated EPSG code for Spherical Mercator - wrong definition similiar to how deprecated ESRI:102113 is defined

Alternatives codes : 3857

Available transformations
to EPSG:4326
No other targets exist for this CRS

Selected transformation

Method: Geocentric translations (geog2D domain)

Remarks: Executes change of sphere/ellipsoid

Information source: OGP

Revision date: 2008-03-14

Attributes

Unit: metre

Geodetic CRS: Popular Visualisation CRS

Datum: Popular Visualisation Datum

Ellipsoid: Popular Visualisation Sphere

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: EPSG

Information source: Microsoft.

Revision date: 2008-03-14

Scope: Web mapping and visualisation.

Remarks: Uses spherical development. Relative to an ellipsoidal development errors of up to 800 metres in position and 0.7% in scale may arise. Some applications call this WGS 84. It is not a recognised geodetic system: see WGS 84 / World Mercator (CRS code 3395)

Area of use: World between 85.06°S and 85.06°N.

Coordinate system: Cartesian 2D CS. Axes: easting, northing (X,Y). Orientations: east, north. UoM: m.

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Center coordinates
0.0 0.0

Projected bounds:
-20037508.34 -242528680.94
20037508.34 242528680.94

WGS84 bounds:
-180.0 -90.0
180.0 90.0

World.
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Definition: OGC Well Known Text

PROJCS["Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator",
    GEOGCS["Popular Visualisation CRS",
        DATUM["Popular_Visualisation_Datum",
            SPHEROID["Popular Visualisation Sphere",6378137,0],
            TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4055"]],
    PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],
    AXIS["Easting",EAST],
    AXIS["Northing",NORTH],
    EXTENSION["PROJ4","+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs"],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","3785"]]

Definition: OGC Well Known Text 2 (2019)

PROJCRS["Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator",
    BASEGEOGCRS["Popular Visualisation CRS",
        DATUM["Popular Visualisation Datum",
            ELLIPSOID["Popular Visualisation Sphere",6378137,0,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
        ID["EPSG",4055]],
    CONVERSION["Popular Visualisation Mercator",
        METHOD["Mercator (1SP) (Spherical)",
            ID["EPSG",9841]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8801]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8802]],
        PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1,
            SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
            ID["EPSG",8805]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["easting (X)",east,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
        AXIS["northing (Y)",north,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
    USAGE[
        SCOPE["Web mapping and visualisation."],
        AREA["World between 85.06°S and 85.06°N."],
        BBOX[-85.06,-180,85.06,180]],
    ID["EPSG",3785]]

Definition: ESRI Well Known Text

PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator",
    GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",
        DATUM["D_WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",
            SPHEROID["WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",6378137.0,0.0]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
        UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
    PROJECTION["Mercator_(1SP)_(Spherical)"],
    PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",0.0],
    PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",0.0],
    PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1.0],
    PARAMETER["False easting",0.0],
    PARAMETER["False northing",0.0],
    UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

Definition: PROJ.4

+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs

Definition: JavaScript (Proj4js) 

proj4.defs("EPSG:3785","+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs");

Definition: JSON

{
    "$schema": "https://proj.org/schemas/v0.5/projjson.schema.json",
    "type": "ProjectedCRS",
    "name": "Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator",
    "base_crs": {
        "name": "Popular Visualisation CRS",
        "datum": {
            "type": "GeodeticReferenceFrame",
            "name": "Popular Visualisation Datum",
            "ellipsoid": {
                "name": "Popular Visualisation Sphere",
                "radius": 6378137
            }
        },
        "coordinate_system": {
            "subtype": "ellipsoidal",
            "axis": [
                {
                    "name": "Geodetic latitude",
                    "abbreviation": "Lat",
                    "direction": "north",
                    "unit": "degree"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Geodetic longitude",
                    "abbreviation": "Lon",
                    "direction": "east",
                    "unit": "degree"
                }
            ]
        },
        "id": {
            "authority": "EPSG",
            "code": 4055
        }
    },
    "conversion": {
        "name": "Popular Visualisation Mercator",
        "method": {
            "name": "Mercator (1SP) (Spherical)",
            "id": {
                "authority": "EPSG",
                "code": 9841
            }
        },
        "parameters": [
            {
                "name": "Latitude of natural origin",
                "value": 0,
                "unit": "degree",
                "id": {
                    "authority": "EPSG",
                    "code": 8801
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "Longitude of natural origin",
                "value": 0,
                "unit": "degree",
                "id": {
                    "authority": "EPSG",
                    "code": 8802
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "Scale factor at natural origin",
                "value": 1,
                "unit": "unity",
                "id": {
                    "authority": "EPSG",
                    "code": 8805
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "False easting",
                "value": 0,
                "unit": "metre",
                "id": {
                    "authority": "EPSG",
                    "code": 8806
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "False northing",
                "value": 0,
                "unit": "metre",
                "id": {
                    "authority": "EPSG",
                    "code": 8807
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "coordinate_system": {
        "subtype": "Cartesian",
        "axis": [
            {
                "name": "Easting",
                "abbreviation": "X",
                "direction": "east",
                "unit": "metre"
            },
            {
                "name": "Northing",
                "abbreviation": "Y",
                "direction": "north",
                "unit": "metre"
            }
        ]
    },
    "scope": "Web mapping and visualisation.",
    "area": "World between 85.06°S and 85.06°N.",
    "bbox": {
        "south_latitude": -85.06,
        "west_longitude": -180,
        "north_latitude": 85.06,
        "east_longitude": 180
    },
    "id": {
        "authority": "EPSG",
        "code": 3785
    }
}

Definition: GeoServer

3785=PROJCS["Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator",GEOGCS["Popular Visualisation CRS",DATUM["Popular_Visualisation_Datum",SPHEROID["Popular Visualisation Sphere",6378137,0],TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","4055"]],PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"],PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["metre",1,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AXIS["Easting",EAST],AXIS["Northing",NORTH],EXTENSION["PROJ4","+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs"],AUTHORITY["EPSG","3785"]]

Definition: MapServer - MAPfile

PROJECTION
	"proj=merc"
	"a=6378137"
	"b=6378137"
	"lat_ts=0"
	"lon_0=0"
	"x_0=0"
	"y_0=0"
	"k=1"
	"units=m"
	"nadgrids=@null"
	"wktext"
	"no_defs"
	"type=crs"
END

Definition: Mapnik

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Map srs="+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs">
	<Layer srs="+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs">
	</Layer>
</Map>

Definition: SQL (PostGIS)

INSERT into spatial_ref_sys (srid, auth_name, auth_srid, proj4text, srtext) values ( 3785, 'EPSG', 3785, '+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs +type=crs', 'PROJCS["Popular Visualisation CRS / Mercator",GEOGCS["Popular Visualisation CRS",DATUM["Popular_Visualisation_Datum",SPHEROID["Popular Visualisation Sphere",6378137,0],TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","4055"]],PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"],PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["metre",1,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AXIS["Easting",EAST],AXIS["Northing",NORTH],EXTENSION["PROJ4","+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0 +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +k=1 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs"],AUTHORITY["EPSG","3785"]]');