[Gdal-dev] problems with datum transform AGD66 to GDA94
Michael Sumner
mdsumner at utas.edu.au
Tue Nov 6 18:49:07 EST 2007
Thanks Andrew,
That's what I thought - but the differences between the GDAit and ogr2ogr
conversions are 100-200m.
That is worse than I thought we could expect. I simply don't know how
else to specify the conversion for this transformation.
Cheers, Mike.
>Mike,
>Based on your DSE link, one of the things you may be missing is that
GDAit is using a >local grid distortion model as well as doing a point to
point conversion from AMG to MGA. >The local distortion model uses a grid
of observed values to determine additional local >shifts. GDAit is
considered the most correct conversion for AMG to MGA and depending on
>location this can be a metre in magnitude.
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