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Datum shifts and digital map coordinate displays

http://thor-f5.er.usgs.gov/drg/datum_shifts_v2.pdf

Online GIS training course for users in GIS environments in resolving the differences in distances and coordinate readouts due to shifts in the 1927 and 1983 North American Datums when using Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grids.

by Moore, Laurence R. and Geography Discipline (Sponsor)
This publication is available only as a PDF document.
Related topics:
Cartography, Computational methods, Map coordinate systems

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