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Expand Up @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ public DefaultGridsets(boolean useEPSG900913, boolean useGWC11xNames) {
},
256,
256,
true);
false);
// copied from the OGC TMS spec
WEB_MERCATOR_QUAD.setDescription(
"This tile matrix set is the most used tile matrix set in the mass market: for example, by Google Maps, Microsoft Bing Maps and Open Street Map tiles. Nevertheless, it has been long criticized because it is a based on a spherical Mercator instead of an ellipsoid. The use of WebMercatorQuad should be limited to visualization. Any additional use (including distance measurements, routing etc.) needs to use the Mercator spherical expressions to transform the coordinate to an appropriate CRS first. The risks caused by imprecision in the use of Web Mercator is also emphasized by the US National Geospatial Agency (NGA). NGA has issued an Advisory Notice on web Mercator (http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/web_mercator/index.html) that says that “it may cause geo-location / geo-coordinate errors up to 40,000 meters. This erroneous geospatial positioning information poses an unacceptable risk to global safety of navigation activities, and department of defense, intelligence community, and allied partner systems, missions, and operations that require accurate and precise positioning and navigation information.” The use of WorldMercatorWGS84Quad is recommended.");
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