Opened 14 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#2744 closed defect (fixed)
EPSG:3388 Projection Parameter incorectly set to Mercator_1SP
Reported by: | crschmidt | Owned by: | warmerdam |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | OGR_SRS | Version: | svn-trunk |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | Mercator2SP |
Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
From http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/metacrs/2008-December/000185.html:
- EPSG:3388, Pulkovo 1942 / Caspian Sea Mercator
According to EPSG, the projection method is "Mercator (2SP)", coord op method 9805, with a standard parallel at 42?N. But on SpatialReference.org, the projection method in OGC WKT is given as "Mercator_1SP", and the standard parallel is absent from the parameters.
Change History (1)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
Description: | modified (diff) |
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Keywords: | Mercator2SP added |
Resolution: | → fixed |
Status: | new → closed |
Corrected handling of Mercator2SP (9805) in ogr_fromepsg.cpp in trunk (r18979). With this change 3388 expands as:
and translates to PROJ.4 as:
It would be desirable to have a known test point for 3388. Note this change also corrects the interpretation of EPSG:3994 WGS/Mercator41.