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convert from long/lat to google mercator (or EPSG:4326 to EPSG:900913)
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degress2meters.js
// See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames for more details.
var degrees2meters = function(lon,lat) {
var x = lon * 20037508.34 / 180;
var y = Math.log(Math.tan((90 + lat) * Math.PI / 360)) / (Math.PI / 180);
y = y * 20037508.34 / 180;
return [x, y]
}
x= -77.035974
y = 38.898717
console.log(degrees2meters(x,y))
// should result in: -8575605.398444, 4707174.018280
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Us77 commented Mar 24, 2020 •
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Can you please help with converting meters to lat long?

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kb173 commented Apr 14, 2020

@Us77:

The C++ macro posted above works well for converting meters to lat/long degrees: #define DEGREE_TO_METER_REVERSE(Y) (atan(pow(M_E, ((Y)/111319.490778)*M_PI/180.0))*360.0/M_PI-90.0) (Thanks @jiangfeng79!)

Should be trivial to adapt to Python.

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