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Web Mercator projection

Web Mercator, Pseudo-Mercator, or Google Web Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection used for coordinates in WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator and visualisation. It became the de facto standard for Web mapping applications after Google Maps adopted it in 2005. It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including…

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Web Mercator projection

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples9
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Web Mercator projection

Top relations

related to Formulas · 8
Web Mercator projection → Because, Formulas, Google Maps, Mercator, Services, The, This, Web Mercator

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Important terminology

mercator web projection used ellipsoidal epsg maps spherical map google coordinates 3857 standard formulas wgs 84 identifier official using 3785

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Google Maps cut off coverage at 85.051129instance ofServices0.80text
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasFormulas0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasWeb Mercator0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasMercator0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasBecause0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasServices0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasGoogle Maps0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasThis0.60section
Web Mercator projectionrelated to FormulasThe0.60section

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