[josm-dev] projection Mercator, set EPSG 3785 instead of EPSG 3857

[Sebastian Klein]

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Josh Doe wrote:
> 
>> What timing. I just created a wiki page on this very subject. [1]
>>
>> I've been meaning to submit a bug, but the "Mercator" projection in
>> JOSM is NOT EPSG:3857 as it claims, I'm not sure what EPSG or ESRI
>> code it corresponds to.
> 
> Well, we can fix JOSM's internal Mercartor without side effects, as 
> currently it is never exposed outside (for WMS it is silently [and 
> slightly false] converted to EPSG:4326).
> 
> It should be as simply as multiplying with 6378137.0.
> 
> I did so in Revision 3922.

It breaks imagery offsets. (But on the plus side fixes #5789 :)  )

Sebastian