TRANSFORMATION OF RECTANGULAR CO-ORDINATES ON THE TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION

Abstract

The necessity of transforming rectangular co-ordinates from one system of projection to another may arise from, various causes, One case, for example, with which the present writer is concerned involves the transformation, to the standard belt now in use, of the co-ordinates of some hundreds of points of a long existing triangulation projected a quarter of a, century ago on a, belt of Transverse Mercator projection, In this case conversion is complicated by the fact that the spheroid used in the original computation differs from that now adopted, and, also, the geodetic datums are not the same, The case in fact approaches the most general that can occur in practice, One step in one solution of this problem, however, is of perhaps wider Interest: that is, the transformation from one belt of Transverse Mercator projection to another when the spheroids and datums are identical. It is this special case which will be discussed here.