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From: Doug Royer
Date: 2006 Apr 4, 09:40 -0700
I sent this yesterday while the list was “broken”. Don’t see it in the archives.
Thank you Marcel and George for your
excellent, informative replies to my inquiry.
If I was to travel to
It was only an inquiry.
Since I do quite a bit of long cross
country hikes and use excellent projections here in the States I was just
curious as to what people in
Over here we have a choice as to the
format of the projections. Most use WGS84 datums but a few still use WGS27
datums. I especially like to use the large scale U.S.G.S. projections in the
UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinate format and the smaller scale
projections from the U.S.D.M.S. in the MGRS (Military Grid Reference System)
coordinate format. Using these 2 coordinate systems allows a person to more
accurately pin point one’s position (a meter or less on a 1:24000
projection) than using the Lat/Lon coordinates.
Yes George, what you’re explaining
is the Grid North. Not the same as true north or magnetic north. When a person
corrects or uncorrects a bearing using a grid system one must also compensate
for that offset along with the declination (variation) offset.