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ITM and the older more established Irish Grid will (initially at least) be used in parallel. As a result ITM coordinates had to be obviously different so users would not confuse the two. This was done by shifting the ITM false origin further into the Atlantic and thereby creating substantially different co-ordinate numbers for any given location.
The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used for paper mapping in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). [1] Any location in Ireland can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies off the southwest coast. [ 2 ]
The Irish grid uses the OSGB projection formulae. Irish Transverse Mercator. datum: Ireland 1965 ellipsoid: GRS80 major axis: 6 378 137 minor axis: 6 356 752.314140 central meridian scale factor: 0.999820 true origin: 8°W and 53.5°N false easting of true grid origin, E0: 600,000 false northing of true grid origin, N0: 750,000
The Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) coordinate reference system was adopted in 2001 and is now the preferred coordinate reference system across Ireland. ITM is based on the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system (UTM), used to provide grid references for worldwide locations, and this is the system commonly used for the Channel Islands.
In geodesy, geographic coordinate conversion is defined as translation among different coordinate formats or map projections all referenced to the same geodetic datum. [1] A geographic coordinate transformation is a translation among different geodetic datums. Both geographic coordinate conversion and transformation will be considered in this ...
The true grid origin is always taken on the central meridian so that grid coordinates will be negative west of the central meridian. To avoid such negative grid coordinates, standard practice defines a false origin to the west (and possibly north or south) of the grid origin: the coordinates relative to the false origin define eastings and ...
The grid lines point to a Grid North, varying slightly from True North. This variation is zero on the central meridian (north-south line) of the map, which is at two degrees west of the Prime Meridian, and greatest at the map edges. The difference between grid north and true north is very small and can be ignored for most navigation purposes.
Iraq National Grid [citation needed] EPSG:3893: Ireland: Irish grid reference system: Ireland including Northern Ireland: Israel: Israeli Transverse Mercator: EPSG:2039: Israel & Palestinian territories: Netherlands: Stelsel van de Rijksdriehoeksmeting (RD) [4] EPSG:28992: European Netherlands: New Zealand: New Zealand Transverse Mercator [5 ...