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Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:25:52 -0500
From: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: map projection tables <fwd>
Sender: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>


John Snyder's MAP PROJECTIONS—A WORKING MANUAL (USGS Professional paper
1395, published 1987), has the specific projections for different state
zones on pages 52-56, but doesn't specify the coverage of those zones.

Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 02:38:11 CDT
> From: Joseph McCollum <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: map projection tables <fwd>
> Sender: Joseph McCollum <[log in to unmask]>
>
> This is a good question -- so far as I know, the Colorado North Zone
> refers to the State Plane projection, referring to which zone should
> software (such as ERDAS or Arc/INFO) collect its parameters from.
> Recently, I had a request to project some data into Kentucky State Plane
> Feet -- I didn't know which counties were considered "South" and which
> were "North" -- so I did the whole state for both zones and let the user
> figure out what was right.  It would be nice if there were a dataset out
> there, though.
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