geosphere_mercator function

Transform longitude/latiude points to the Mercator projection.

From geosphere::mercator

geosphere_mercator(p, inverse = FALSE, r = 6378137)

Arguments

• p: longitude/latitude of point(s). Can be a vector of two numbers, a matrix of 2 columns (first one is longitude, second is latitude)
• inverse: Logical. If TRUE, do the inverse projection (from Mercator to longitude/latitude
• r: Numeric. Radius of the earth; default = 6378137 m

Returns

Mercator projection of lon/lat points

Author(s)

Markus Loecher