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The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

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Compute the latitude of a center of mercator projection

I figured it's not 30° and can compute it by firstly projecting the bounding latitudes onto a square using Mercator, computing the middle point, and then projecting back onto a sphere. … But is there a simpler way of achieving the same without having to project to and from Mercator? …
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osm2pgsql missing coordinates

Update The answer to my second question is that osm2pgsql projects from latitude and longitude coordinates to mercator in meters. … LatLng[0,0] will indeed be projected as Point[0,0] where the point coordinates are the distance in meters from the origin on a mercator plane. …
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