EPSG:8855

Equal Earth Americas

Attributes

Data source: EPSG

Information source: IOGP

Revision date: 2020-01-16

Scope: Very small scale equal-area mapping - Americas-centred.

Method: Equal Earth

Area of use: World centred on the Americas.

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Definition: OGC Well Known Text 2 (2019)

CONVERSION["Equal Earth Americas",
    METHOD["Equal Earth",
        ID["EPSG",1078]],
    PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",-90,
        ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
        ID["EPSG",8802]],
    PARAMETER["False easting",0,
        LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
        ID["EPSG",8806]],
    PARAMETER["False northing",0,
        LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
        ID["EPSG",8807]],
    ID["EPSG",8855]]

Definition: ESRI Well Known Text

PROJECTION["Equal_Earth"],
PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],
PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-90.0]

Definition: PROJ.4

+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0

Definition: JavaScript (Proj4js) 

proj4.defs("EPSG:8855","+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0");

Definition: JSON

{
    "$schema": "https://proj.org/schemas/v0.7/projjson.schema.json",
    "type": "Conversion",
    "name": "Equal Earth Americas",
    "method": {
        "name": "Equal Earth",
        "id": {
            "authority": "EPSG",
            "code": 1078
        }
    },
    "parameters": [
        {
            "name": "Longitude of natural origin",
            "value": -90,
            "unit": "degree",
            "id": {
                "authority": "EPSG",
                "code": 8802
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "False easting",
            "value": 0,
            "unit": "metre",
            "id": {
                "authority": "EPSG",
                "code": 8806
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "False northing",
            "value": 0,
            "unit": "metre",
            "id": {
                "authority": "EPSG",
                "code": 8807
            }
        }
    ],
    "id": {
        "authority": "EPSG",
        "code": 8855
    }
}

Definition: MapServer - MAPfile

PROJECTION
	"proj=eqearth"
	"lon_0=-90"
	"x_0=0"
	"y_0=0"
END

Definition: Mapnik

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Map srs="+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0">
	<Layer srs="+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0">
	</Layer>
</Map>

Definition: SQL (PostGIS)

INSERT into spatial_ref_sys (srid, auth_name, auth_srid, proj4text, srtext) values ( 8855, 'EPSG', 8855, '+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0', 'None');