[GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-10 Thread Bulent Arikan
Dear List, I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the fact that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between GE and other projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if anyone knows whether there is an EPSG code for KML format so that I can create

Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-10 Thread G. Allegri
Hi Bulent, the officiale EPSG for Spherical Mercator is EPSG:3785 [1] , though you can find EPSG.900913 too (this is depracted now, as far as I know). giovanni [1] http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3785/ 2010/7/10 Bulent Arikan : > Dear List, > I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml file

Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-10 Thread Hamish
Bulent wrote: > I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the > fact that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between GE > and other projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if anyone > knows whether there is an EPSG code for KML format so that I

Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-10 Thread Bulent Arikan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Hamish wrote: > Bulent wrote: > > I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the > > fact that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between GE > > and other projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if anyone > > kn

Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-12 Thread micha
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Hamish wrote: > >> Bulent wrote: >> > I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the >> > fact that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between >> GE >> > and other projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if >>

Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-12 Thread micha
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Hamish wrote: > >> Bulent wrote: >> > I occasionally use Google Earth –GE– (kml files) and I am aware of the >> > fact that there is a bit of distortion (i.e., metric offset) between >> GE >> > and other projections for a variety of reasons. I am wondering if >>

Re: Re: [GRASS-user] EPSG code for KML

2010-07-12 Thread Aleksander Yanovskiy
As far as I know, kml files are in EPSG:4326 (for example, http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_kml.html), but if you want to use images from Google Earth, you should use EPSG:3785. Aleksander ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists