[Proj] gaus-kruger projection[Scanned]

Pieter Bosch pieter.bosch at za.saabgroup.com
Thu Feb 5 06:06:19 EST 2009


Thanks for your replay . Do u know if this will also work for wgs84?

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[mailto:proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Eichler
Sent: 05 February 2009 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Proj] gaus-kruger projection[Scanned]

On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009 11:31:43 Pieter Bosch wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
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> Does anyone know if proj4's  command prompt app can do gaus-kruger
> projection and if so what is the parameters to use. How would the
> following statement have to change to be in Gaus-kruger.
>
> +proj=tmerc +ellps=WGS84 +lon_0=12 +x_0=500000
>
>
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> I've seen a pj_gauss.C file  but I cant see any abbreviation in the
> projection list that identifies GAUSS-Kruger. Please help
>

"+proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=12 +k=1 +x_0=4500000 +y_0=0 +ellps=bessel 
+datum=potsdam +units=m +no_defs "

This is what I use for Gauss/Kruger with Potsdam datum

Oliver


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