Non Standard AUTO Namespace

The WMS standard supports a small number of “automatic” coordinate reference systems that include a user-selected centre of projection. These are specified using:

AUTO:auto_crs_id,factor,lon0,lat0

for example:

CRS=AUTO:42003,1,-100,45

Note

in GeoServer 2.8.x AUTO and AUTO2 namespaces are treated identically.

Note

in GeoServer 2.8.x the factor parameter in the AUTO namespace is ignored. The BBOX parameter to GetMap must therefore be specified in metres.

The WMS standard provide projections with IDs in the range 42001 to 42005.

ID

Projection

42001

Universal Transverse Mercator

42002

Transverse Mercator

42003

Orthographic

42004

Equirectangular

42005

Mollweide (not supported in GeoServer 2.8.x)

GeoServer also supports some non-standard coordinate reference systems. These are

ID

Projection

97001

Gnomonic

97002

Stereographic

Note

the auto stereographic projection uses a sphere. It does this by setting the semi minor axis to the same value as the semi major axis.