[Merkaartor] Relations

[James Ewen]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Gunter Grau <ggrau at freenet.de> wrote:

> I pretty much get the same results when I change projection to OSBG36
> (whatever that means ;-)).

OSGB36 is the Ordinance Survey of Great Britain from 1936 projection.

A projection is just a method used to take the surface of the earth (a
sphere in really simple terms), and try and represent it on a flat
plane. The type of distortion used is called the projection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

The OSGB36 projection is a Transverse Mercator projection with an
origin just offshore between England and France.

James
VE6SRV