# Nice labels with Mercator projection

**URL:** <https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/nice-labels-with-mercator-projection/114>\
**Category:** GeoViews\
**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/nice-labels-with-mercator-projection/114 "2020-01-15T08:25:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Skealz](https://discourse.holoviz.org/user_avatar/discourse.holoviz.org/skealz/32/127_2.png) [@Skealz](https://discourse.holoviz.org/u/Skealz)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/nice-labels-with-mercator-projection/114/1 "2020-01-15T08:25:13Z")

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Hello,

I am using :

```auto
lonOffset = -160
proj = ccrs.Mercator(lonOffset)
gf.coastline.opts(projection=proj, width=1100, height=800, padding=0.1,
                            axiswise=True, title="Cyclone track and acquisitions", tools=['tap'], global_extent=True)

```

And the result is

 ![costline](https://discourse.holoviz.org/uploads/default/original/1X/e5bd12d79a49dcd7527cc7cf66480bf2bad1b7f3.png)

Is it possible to have lon/lat ticks labels ? When I use some other projection it is automatically set (GOOGLE\_MERCATOR or PlateCarree)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Skealz](https://discourse.holoviz.org/user_avatar/discourse.holoviz.org/skealz/32/127_2.png) [@Skealz](https://discourse.holoviz.org/u/Skealz)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/nice-labels-with-mercator-projection/114/2 "2020-01-15T10:25:32Z")

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I saw that in bokeh it is possible to set `x_axis_type="mercator"` but I’m unable to set it through geoviews.

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**Author:** ![philippjfr](https://discourse.holoviz.org/user_avatar/discourse.holoviz.org/philippjfr/32/7_2.png) [@philippjfr](https://discourse.holoviz.org/u/philippjfr)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/nice-labels-with-mercator-projection/114/3 "2020-01-15T10:29:32Z")

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The projection used by bokeh is equivalent to GOOGLE\_MERCATOR so I’m not sure enabling it for Mercator will produce accurate ticks.