[OSM-talk] Anyone familiar with Pulkova 1932 coordinates?

[Tom Hughes]

Erik Johansson wrote:

> Oooh projection archeology, it's even more fun when you go down to
> local county databases they all have their own projections scheme for
> better fit to the grid. Reading in Proj4 projection definitions file
> there seems to be many "pulkovo" zones in 1995, maybe the same is true
> for 1932? Calling up your local university  GIS department they are
> usually very glad to help.. :-) You can also ask the OSM Russians:

This article may be of some help:

   http://www.asprs.org/resources/grids/09-2002-latvia.pdf

The final paragraph gives a translation from Pulkovo 1932 to UTM by
the looks of it.

Tom

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