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My google-fu wasn't the best when searching for a way to convert WGS84 to Web Mercator EPSG:3857, which is the common Google Maps and Bing Maps projection. If you have arrived here in search of an answer, the links to explain everything are below. Essential Background https://alastaira.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/the-google-maps-bing-maps-spherical-mercator-projection/ Take the EPSG WKT from article 1, and use it in the proj.net library http://blogs.u2u.be/diederik/post/2010/01/01/Converting-Spatial-Coordinates-with-ProjNET.aspx The definitive MSDN article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx Code from MSDN article that doesn't use the proj.net Library https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/f53e1852ca289e4a806c062f97a18f05 Live Demo (in JavaScript): https://jsfiddle.net/aaronhoffman/L1kpdmgz/ And this next section is just to help others search and get here: Convert WGS84 to Web Mercator Convert WGS84 to Google Maps Convert WGS84 to Bing M

Working with some images of maps, I had a need for some pixel grid overlays. I couldn't find any with a quick google search so I made these in paint.net using the Grid Maker  plugin. Images below 8x8 pixel grid on 256 pixel image 8x8 pixel grid on 1024 pixel image 16x16 pixel grid on 256 pixel image 16x16 pixel grid on 1024 pixel image Hope this helps, Aaron