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authorEven Rouault <even.rouault@mines-paris.org>2018-08-21 18:56:16 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-08-21 18:56:16 +0200
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Merge pull request #1095 from rouault/webmerc_fixes
Fixes for webmerc projection (fixes #1078)
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diff --git a/docs/source/operations/projections/webmerc.rst b/docs/source/operations/projections/webmerc.rst
index 92da2d45..3a3d9a47 100644
--- a/docs/source/operations/projections/webmerc.rst
+++ b/docs/source/operations/projections/webmerc.rst
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ From `Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator>`_:
+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| **Classification** | Cylindrical (non conformant if used with ellipsoid) |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
-| **Available forms** | Forward and inverse, spherical projection |
+| **Available forms** | Forward and inverse |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
-| **Defined area** | Global, but best used near the equator |
+| **Defined area** | Global |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| **Alias** | webmerc |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -49,9 +49,13 @@ Example::
Parameters
################################################################################
-.. note:: All parameters for the projection are optional.
+.. note:: All parameters for the projection are optional, except the ellipsoid
+ definition, which is WGS84 for the typical use case of EPSG:3857.
+ In which case, the other parameters are set to their default 0 value.
-.. include:: ../options/R.rst
+.. include:: ../options/ellps.rst
+
+.. include:: ../options/lon_0.rst
.. include:: ../options/x_0.rst