Question

In Javascript.

I have a map of the world that is 1024 x 1024px – It is a spherical Mercator projection.

Im looking to convert long/lat to x,y for this map. I have a bunch of coordinates that I need to overlay on top of it.

Calculating longitude was very easy, and I am doing it like so:

pos.x = ((long + 180)/ 360) * 1024;

I just need to same for lat –> y

I looked around a saw a lot of reference to openlayers, but didn’t see such a conversion.

Answer 1

To boil it down:

var mercator = function(lat, lng) {
  return [lng, Math.log( (Math.sin(lat) + 1.0) / Math.cos(lat)) ] ;
};

Lat and long must be expressed in radians of course.