This feature is useful for power users working with specific coordinate systems for Earth or other space objects.I've looked at many posts on this subject, but I just can't seem to find a fix for a Google map embedded on my website. MapTiler Engine gives you the freedom to define your own coordinate system. This feature is recommended (but not limited to) GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), super-high-res photographers, scientists, and other individuals, companies, and institutions who need to publish high-resolution material online. The final image is ready for publishing on the web using any standard JavaScript library - with all advantages of a zoomable viewer. With this option, the image is cut into tiles with no geographical location. Zoomable images without geographical location for GLAMįor scans of old paintings or high-res photography, there is the Pixels tab. New Zealand: NZGD2000 / New Zealand Transverse Mercator - New Zealand Geodetic Datum (NZGD2000), the official geodetic datum for New Zealand and its offshore islands. Netherlands: Rijksdriehoekstelsel New / Amersfoort (Dutch) - National tiling grid for the Netherlands - Rijksdriehoekstelsel New / Amersfoort. Coverage is limited to Russia and Ukraine. Russia: Yandex grid - Custom tiling preset used in Russian web mapping service, compatible with Yandex.Maps. This preset covers only the China region and is compatible with the Baidu Maps service.Ĭzechia: CUZK S-JTSK / Krovak grid - National tiling grid for Czechia and Slovakia with a precision up to 1 meter per pixel. Output tiles could be combined and are compatible with SwissTopo maps.įrance: IGN Lambert 93 grid - Tilegrid defined for precise overlay of maps in France, using Lambert 93 conic projection.Ĭhina: Baidu grid - Tilegrid defined for China customers. Switzerland: SwissTopo grid (LV95) - Swiss national tiling grid used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein with high precision. United Kingdom: Ordnance Survey - British National Grid - National tiling grid for the United Kingdom using Ordnance Survey projection. WGS-84 is used by many international organizations, it is also used as the reference coordinate system by the Global Positioning System. It shows the world in an aspect ratio of 2:1. WGS-84 is the coordinate system standardized by the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. This coordinate system is completely unusable for maps of the poles. The cons of Mercator is that it shows areas closer to poles much bigger than those near the Equator. All modern JavaScript libraries, mobile SDKs, desktop GIS, game engines, and other tools support Mercator projection. Mercator is compatible with most of the web services and maps including Google Maps,, and MapTiler Cloud. To do so, you don’t have to do anything - it is the default coordinate system of MapTiler Engine. It shows the world in an aspect ratio of 1:1. Mercator is the de-facto standard used in web cartography. The two most common global coordinate systems are Mercator and WGS-84. Still, it needs to solve the issue of displaying a globe on a 2D surface: none of the methods is perfect and it either distorts some parts of Earth or makes the map harder to use in other aspects. The need for such displays started to grow in the last decades. Therefore, each country has built its own system of displaying the map - such system fits best each country, however, it deforms other parts of the world.ĭisplaying the entire world on a flat surface was quite rare. Traditionally, a map was intended to show a relatively small area - one city or one country. The geographic coordinate system is a method of assigning points of a map to a geographic position on Earth (or another planet). What is a national or custom coordinate system? Select the setting for the Output coordinate system after Assigning geolocation for your image step. MapTiler Cloud offers basemaps in Mercator, Global WGS-84, Czech S-JTSK, French Lambert93, Dutch RD-New, Swiss LV95, and UK`s Ordnance Survey grid. Maps in any coordinate system can be uploaded and hosted on MapTiler Cloud and integrated with basemaps or other data in the same coordinate system. This feature is available to all editions of MapTiler Engine, including FREE. If you don't know what coordinate systems are or which one to use, just go with the default settings. This article will teach you how to turn your image into a map in a coordinate reference system (custom or national).
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