Datum

WGS 1984

Spheroid

Spheroid

Prime Meridian

Greenwich

Unit

Meter

Creator

Google

Year

2005

Type

Cylindrical

Properties

Equidistant

Notes

A variation of the Mercator projection, ignoring the ellipticity of Earth for faster computation. The de facto standard for web mapping applications, used by Google Maps, Bing Maps, Mapquest, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap and others.