'Transverse mercator projection' presentation slideshows

Map and Compass

Malcolm Cunningham Tararua Tramping Club. Map and Compass. Getting a sphere onto a plane (Mercator projection). Transverse Mercator Projection. Longitudinal lines (N-S) not necessarily vertical. There are three Norths. 1. True or Geographic North 2. Grid North 3. Magnetic North.

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Projections and Coordinates

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Projections and Coordinate Systems

Projections and Coordinate Systems. Projections Coordinate systems Datums. Projections. The earth is a spheroid The best model of the earth is a globe. not easy to carry not good for making planimetric measurement (distance, area, angle). Maps are flat easy to carry

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Map Projections

Map Projections. GIS-101 Summer 2006 Semester. Important Things to Remember about Map Projections. An attempt to take location information from a spheriod object and transfer to a flat surface As such, ALL projections are a distortion of the real world to some extent!.

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Map projections

Map projections. The dilemma. Maps are flat, but the Earth is not!. Producing a perfect map is like peeling an orange and flattening the peel without distorting a map drawn on its surface. For example:. The Public Land Survey System.

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Transverse Mercator Projection

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Transverse Mercator Projection

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