John,

This looks like the kind of north/south error you get when the transform gets 
the ellipsoids wrong, with most serious displacement if a one of the ellipsoids 
is a sphere.

I am guessing that your transform ignores the ellipsoid change, try see what 
you get if you specify GRS 1980 also in your target CS. You can use cs2cs on 
single points to check the transform.

Also, verify that 6378137 is the proper Earth radius both for your sphere and 
for the GRS80 spheroid, this is usually not the case.

Sorry I couldnt pinpoint he exact command to solve, it's too long since I dealt 
with these issues :-)

Sjur



________________________________
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Hayes
Sent: 5 august 2009 02:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gdal-dev] reprojection to WGS 1984 Web Mercator

Hi,
  I'm having problems warping an image to WGS 1984 Web Mercator.  The lat/long 
center point moved south by 10 arc-minutes.  Does anyone have some suggestion 
on how to fix this?

 I'm pretty sure the USA_Contiguous_Equidistant_Conic transform worked fine 
because I looked at the lag/long in Google Earth and saw the same buildings.

I've also done the transform in two steps Source SRS to WGS84 and WGS84 to WGS 
1984 Web Mercator but get the same answer.

Bellow is the command line I used to warp the image and info dumps of the 
before and after images.

$ gdalwarp -t_srs ESRI::wm.prj Athens_RGB_CEC1FT_200303.tif 
Athens_RGB_CEC1FT_200303-wm.tif
Creating output file that is 7455P x 6882L.
Processing input file Athens_RGB_CEC1FT_200303.tif.
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

Files: Athens_RGB_CEC1FT_200303.tif
Size is 6683, 6024
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["USA_Contiguous_Equidistant_Conic",
    GEOGCS["NAD83",
        DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
            SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.2572221010002,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]],
    PROJECTION["Equidistant_Conic"],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",33],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",45],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",39],
    PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",-96],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]]]
Origin = (1157874.742488616100000,-478125.149393160190000)
Pixel Size = (0.169893858067214,-0.169893858067214)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  ( 1157874.742, -478125.149) ( 83d24'42.40"W, 33d58'12.44"N)
Lower Left  ( 1157874.742, -479148.590) ( 83d24'47.89"W, 33d57'39.54"N)
Upper Right ( 1159010.143, -478125.149) ( 83d23'58.53"W, 33d58'7.37"N)
Lower Right ( 1159010.143, -479148.590) ( 83d24'4.02"W, 33d57'34.47"N)
Center      ( 1158442.443, -478636.870) ( 83d24'23.21"W, 33d57'53.46"N)

Files: Athens_RGB_CEC1FT_200303-wm.tif
Size is 7455, 6882
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator",
    GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",
        DATUM["WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",
            SPHEROID["WGS_1984_Major_Auxiliary_Sphere",6378137,0]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
    PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]]]
Origin = (-9285526.535261498800000,4000908.274406374400000)
Pixel Size = (0.204760916615493,-0.204760916615493)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (-9285526.535, 4000908.274) ( 83d24'47.89"W, 33d47'31.24"N)
Lower Left  (-9285526.535, 3999499.110) ( 83d24'47.89"W, 33d46'53.36"N)
Upper Right (-9284000.043, 4000908.274) ( 83d23'58.53"W, 33d47'31.24"N)
Lower Right (-9284000.043, 3999499.110) ( 83d23'58.53"W, 33d46'53.36"N)
Center      (-9284763.289, 4000203.692) ( 83d24'23.21"W, 33d47'12.30"N)






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