[OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2010/1/26 Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>:
> I have the suspicion that osm2pgsql (which is doing the conversation
> to Mercator, right?) somehow falls back to 0,0 when it can not deal
> with an indefinite northing value.

I also came across this issue, but AFAIK mercator is not suitable for
north- and southpole: it is not defined in these regions (don't
remember exactly but it was like bigger/smaller than 85 Deg.
North/South). For further reading look for Mercator-projection in the
Web.

cheers,
Martin