Function to "safely" transform to webmercator. This function is most useful for rendering custom geometries using the CartoDB tiler. Often, transforming a projection like WGS84 can cause issues with extents beyond what are actually valid in webmercator, this attempts to fix those issues. #### Using the function Using a box that is nearly the full globe, ```sql ST_SetSRID( ST_Envelope( ST_Collect( ST_MakePoint(-180,60), ST_MakePoint(180,-60) ) ), 4326 ) ``` We can then convert it to a renderable webmercator geometry. ```sql SELECT CDB_TransformToWebmercator( ST_SetSRID( ST_Envelope( ST_Collect( ST_MakePoint(-10,60), ST_MakePoint(300,-60) ) ), 4326 ) ) ``` Would give you back a single valid rectangle in webmercator. Since a longitude of 300 would convert to an unallowed webmercator coordinate, it gets clipped first. Valid extent is WGS84 (-180, -89, 180, 89) ![valid geom](http://i.imgur.com/EFdXiqt.png) #### Arguments CDB_TransformToWebmercator(geom) * **geom** geometry