[OSM-dev] Projection code

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

> Can someone point me to the code to project (lat, lon)  to (x,y)
> please? I've had a look around on the svn, but can't download it here
> to search.

>From Wikipedia:

x = lon*PI/180,
y = log(tan(PI/4+lat*PI/360)))

the other way round:

lat = atan(sinh(y))*180/PI,
lon = x*180/PI;


(for a java implementation, see
http://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/svn/josm/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/data/projection/Mercator.java)