Map Projections and Datums in NZ: Development and Applications

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Dimensions: 210.00mm x 248.00mm

CartoPRESS: CartoPRESS #2
Published: 2017
Author: John Hannah
ISBN: ISBN 978-0-473-38350-3

Price: $30.00

This volume is a comprehensive and updated account of New Zealand map projections and datums. John Hannah explains the development of national mapping systems, from the National Yard Grids of the 1930s to the current NZTM2000 projection. There is a thorough detailing of the local meridional circuits underpinning the surveying coordinate systems used in NZ and an accessible mathematical basis for the main projection types and specific conformal (shape-preserving) projections. This is supplemented with an overview of offshore island, Pacific island, continental shelf, and Antarctic projections. This text is a valuable resource for students and practitioners of surveying, cartography, and geospatial science in New Zealand.

Perfect bound in A5 portrait format.