<div dir="auto">True, we don't care where the needle points - we need polar north, it's entirely dependent on longitude, and in our usual case, stere centred on south pole, a simple special case.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, Mike</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 01:06 Andrew C Aitchison, <<a href="mailto:andrew@aitchison.me.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">andrew@aitchison.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Michael Sumner wrote:<br>
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> Hello, we're using `gdaldem aspect` on polar grid products and we need to<br>
> convert the grid-oriented directions to compass oriented ones,<br>
> location-specific directions, where "compass north" is dependent on<br>
> longitude.<br>
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I am curious; in the terminology of the British Ordnance Survey maps,<br>
you are converting from "Grid North" but are you trying<br>
to convert to "True North" or to "Magnetic North" ?<br>
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK<br>
<a href="mailto:andrew@aitchison.me.uk" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">andrew@aitchison.me.uk</a><br>
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