The Custom Projection panel

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The Custom Projection panel

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The Custom projection panel consists of the following controls to customize the selected projection:

 

Datum tab

CustomProjectionDatum

 

Add favorites: adds the selected projection to the Favorites

 

Datum tab:

 

Type of: Select a projection type (algorithm).

 

Geographic

Stereographic projection

Mercator

Transverse Mercator

Oblique Mercator

Hotine Oblique Mercator

Lambert conformal conic

Hungarian stereographic

Hungarian cylindrical

Hungarian Unified projection

Swiss cylindrical

Romania TransDat 2009

 

Projection tab:

 

Projection tab

CustomProjectionProjection

 

Datum parameters

 

Spheroid (a, 1/f): Semi-major Axis, Inverse Flattening ratio.

 

Offset (dx, dy, dz): Offset DX, DY, DZ to WGS84 parameters in meter.

Rotate (rx, ry, rz): Rotate RX, RY, RZ to WGS84  parameters in arc seconds.

Scale (s): Scale Factor in ppm.

 

Projection parameters

 

Ref. longitude (la0): Origin Longitude in degree.

Ref. latitude (fi0): Origin Latitude in degree.

1st latitude (fi1): First Latitude in degree.

2nd latitude (fi2): Second latitude in degree.

Scale (m): Scale Factor.

Unit scale: Unit scale value (indicates the unit value in meter).

Origin (fe, fn): False easting, False nothing.

 

k-tip-iconThe modified Datum and Projection parameters are stored in in DigiTerra Explorer Map (.EXP) / DigiTerra Map Pack (.DMP) files and in the user.db3 file

 

On the Source Datum tab you can define the GPS Datum when using Real Time Corrections with different Source Datum (not WGS 84)

 

Source Datum tab

CustomProjectionSourceDatum