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Transverse Mercator coordinate conversions


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Authors

Swirad, Zuzanna 

Description

Utility functions to convert terrestrial map coordinates from latitude-longitude pairs (in degrees) to eastings-northings pairs (in metres), and vice-versa. The routines can handle Transverse Mercator (TM) projections, including the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OSGB) projection and a number of Universal Transverse Mercator-type projections including the UTM projections based on the WGS84 and Hayford (International 1924) ellipsoids and the Gauss-Krüger projection using the Pulkovo 1942 ellipsoid. Other TM projections can be added to the code straightforwardly if the projection parameters are known (instructions are given within the code). The functions are based on the OSGB implementation of the Redfearn series and are accurate to around 1 metre. They are written in the GBU Octave language and should therefore also work correctly in MATLAB.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Mercator:_Redfearn_series https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/resources/guide-coordinate-systems-great-britain.pdf

Version

1.0

Software / Usage instructions

Usage instructions are included within the code, and can be viewed using the 'help' function within GNU Octave or MATLAB.

Keywords

Gauss-Krüger projection, Map coordinate conversion, map projection, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Transverse Mercator projection, Universal Transverse Mercator projection

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