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Google/Bing Maps etc. or web mapping applications use WGS84 coordinates. When you moves the mouse on map, you see WGS84 latitude and longitude. Although coordinate system is WGS84, map is projected in Web Mercator on the screen. Spatial data with projected coordinates is in 2D and it's easy to show on screen, because it's in 2D and already a plane coordinates.

I wonder what is projection system QGIS uses for spatial data that has just geographic coordinates.

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marked as duplicate by mkennedy, Community♦ Mar 21 '18 at 13:29

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Basically: GIS tools (including QGIS) usually default to EPSG:4326, as do global databases such as OSM.
Google Maps and OSM map services (e.g. terrestris) use EPSG:3857, however.

And always be aware that sadly some use coordinate directions (LatLng or LngLat) very liberally, sometimes independent from what the EPSG would require.

See https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/48952/29005 for more details.

If your data has no projection info attached, QGIS will warn you about it. Take this seriously. Yes, it will try and interpret the data as EPSG:4326, but if it actually isn't EPSG:4326, any work you do on the data will be wrong.

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  • What you say is true and i already know that, but not answer I expected. My question is how "lat-lont to screen" transformation is used. I edited the question. – Kadir Şahbaz Mar 21 '18 at 8:58
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To be sure of which projection your QGIS uses check the project properties via: Project > Project properties > CRS, and set the projection to your requirements.

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