A library for performing conversions between cartographic projections.

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Lambert projection with one or two standard parallels and proj4

I'm sure there is a gap in my understanding, but I haven't been able to identify where it is, nor how to fill it. My issue is this: I'm transforming lon lat coordinates into a lambert conformal ...
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How can I specify a spatial reference system which has a north pole different than the standard north pole?

I have a geographic spatial reference system (i.e., latitude and longitude) which has a north pole that is not the usual north pole: it's the magnetic north pole at approximately 70.30 degrees north, ...
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How to define Winkel Tripel in proj 4.8.0?

I have QGIS with proj 4.8.0 installed. I'd like to add Winkel Tripel projection which seems to be defined as +proj=wintri But that definition string does not work. Is this a bug in my proj version, ...
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Proj4 inconsistent longitude after projection

All coordinates expressed in this question are (longitude, latitude), the default for proj4. London is at (-0.1460838, 51.5170986), and San Francisco is at (-122.419302, 37.775549). According to the ...
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Projecting point in Leaflet from EPSG 900913 (same as 3857) to EPSG 2232 with proj4js returning unexpected results

I have a leaflet map from which I want to be able to query an api that accepts x y values in EPSG 2232 as inputs. Leaflet doesn't handle point transformations like Open Layers does so I am trying to ...
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Proj4s.js Library Transformation Accuracy Documentation

I am using proj4s.js for transforming between coordinate systems for a GIS web application. Is there any documentation out there on transformations accuracy provided by the library?
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How can I fix badly specified geographic coordinate system with units in arc-seconds?

Check out this depth-to-rock soil data. It is linked from here. The spatial reference system is a latlon, but the units are arcseconds. I could not reason out how to override the SRS even after ...
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proj4's omerc projection (cs2cs) broken?

When I project longitude -60, latitude 0 to mercator, I get the expected answer: > echo "-60 0" | cs2cs +proj=lonlat +to +proj=merc -6679169.45 0.00 0.00 However, when I project it to ...
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On the usage of Proj4Js->tmerc.js

I am using "proj4js & open layers" for my mapping. I got projection & datum (which is based on "Transverse Mercator") of a local plane and this plane is part of a grid which returns ...
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Conversion From Transverse Mercator To Longitude & Lattitude

I have to transform (7-parameters datum transformation) coordinates from northings & eastings to lattitude & longitude. Following are details of source coordinate system(i.e. northings & ...
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How do I use Proj4js or other technique to make custom map projections with google.maps.Projection?

I'm using Google's Projection class to try to convert my map projection from the default spherical mercator to something like Lambert Conformal Conic. I was previously adapting the code from this ...
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Proj4js can't handle 90/180degree transformations from 4326

So if you try to do a transform like this Proj4js.transform( new Proj4js.Proj( 'EPSG:4326' ), new Proj4js.Proj( 'EPSG:3857' ), new Proj4js.Point( -180, -90 ) ...
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How to set GDAL/cs2cs/proj to use NTv2 grid shift file when using EPSG codes?

I am using the GDAL API for Python for a script that takes only EPSG codes for inputs to specify source and target coordinate systems. While the cs2cs command seems to handle quite well ...
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converting instructions to proj4 string for WRF-NMM E-grid

I'm looking for proj4 string for the WRF-NMM weather model projection. This gris is called Arakama rotated E-Grid. I spent many time looking on the internet. Here's the only practical thing I found. ...
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How do I determine programmatically what values to add to the proj4js constructor for a CRS or SRS such that I can iteratively render proper overlays

I think this is primarily a GIS based question as far as for example: var crs = L.CRS.proj4js('EPSG:2154', '+proj=lcc +lat_1=49 +lat_2=44 +lat_0=46.5 +lon_0=3 +x_0=700000 ...
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Proj4js accuracy compared to Proj4

Is there any lost of accuracy in reprojecting using Proj4js in the browser (compared to using server side Proj4 in Mapserver ) ?