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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The terms "left-handed" and "right-handed" </span></font><span
class=apple-style-span>are standard in mathematics, but they are ambiguous in geodesy where they require another convention to clarify their meaning. That convention would be whether you’re viewing the axis from the geocenter out, or from the outside in. There is no ambiguity about the "Position Vector Rotation" and "Coordinate Frame Rotation" terminology. You’re either rotating the position vector from the geocenter within the coordinate frame, or rotating the coordinate frame about the position vector. This terminology originated with UKOOA (UK Offshore Operators’ Association) for (I believe) the P1/90 navigation format in 1990. It was borrowed by the EPSG, though the Shell geodesist who coined the terms for UKOOA served (and continues to serve) on the EPSG (now subsumed into the OGP, International Association of Oil and Gas Producers). Regards, Noel Zinn<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Proj] cs2cs's
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Are they? Those terms are
standard in mathematics, where "Position Vector Transformation" and
"Coordinate Frame Rotation" are unknown. There is no ambiguity in
their meaning or usage.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'>(Not that I would advocate using the terminology in this context, since
EPSG's terminology is Position Vector Transformation versus Coordinate Frame
Rotation. But at least it is not arbitrary like "American" versus
"European".)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><pre style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>About the rotation sign conventions, I would<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>add that calling the two conventions "European"<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>and "American" is not helpful, since there is not<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>much agreement about which convention is which!<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>(Both conventions are used in <st1:place
w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, and there<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> is no obvious geographic pattern.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The terms "left-handed" and "right-handed" are<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>just as bad. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>It is better to say that cs2cs uses the sign<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>convention known as the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> Position Vector Transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>If you look up the +towgs84 parameters on www.epsg-registry.org <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>(filter by Type: Coordinate Transformation), you will see the text <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> "Warning: CARE! Ensure application uses this method! See Guidance Note<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>7-1"<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>above the parameter values. This means that you<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>should scroll down _below_ the parameter values,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>where you find the Method. If it says:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> + Method [Position Vector transformation]<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>you can use the parameters directly in cs2cs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>But if it says <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> + Method [Coordinate Frame Rotation]<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre
style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>you should reverse the signs of the three<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>rotation parameters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> Dear list,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> could you kindly confirm that the cs2cs's +towgs84 parameters remain <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> the same for a certain datum regardless of the direction of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> transformation. Some people (e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> ly-td3410479.html>seem to suggest that the values need to be negated <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>> about changing the coordinates TO wgs84...<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The parameters are always expressed in terms of what it takes to<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>transform to WGS84. If PROJ is transforming from WGS84 it will<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>internally reverse the sense of the transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Keep in mind there is also an issue with the handedness of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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