[Proj] apply plane rotation after transverse Mercator projection

[Garret Duffy]

Yes, I've tried the omerc projection with +rot_conv and +no_uoff but the
issue is the alpha azimuth parameter is actually the angle of the rotated
cylinder about the ellipsoid (I think the limits are +/- 90?  Can anyone
confirm??) and this angle bears little or no relation to the azimuth of the
projected y-axis relative to true north.  I tried making a bunch of
projections with different alpha angles and +rot_conv and +no_uoff but is
was very hard to precisely control the rotation of the linear features I was
interested in measuring.

I think this thread involving Mikael and Frank discusses it well

http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/looking-for-the-right-params-for-RSO-td5468455.html

It appears that the gamma parameter should actuate an XY_PLANE_ROTATION...

So this leads to two question and one request:

Q1) does omerc take the gamma parameter now? I am running v. 4.5

Q2) what are the limits of alpha?

R3) Would it be possible to design a new CRS similar to tmerc but taking a
gamma parameter?

Thanks everyone for your advice.

Garret
"Mikael Rittri" <Mikael.Rittri at carmenta.com> wrote in message
news:11AC4CEB-F5B7-45A1-BE18-730A3FABD1C2 at carmenta.com...
The Rosenmund projection is called +proj=somerc (Swiss Oblique Mercator),
but I don't see why that should be better than the RSO (+proj=omerc) for
this purpose.


I don't think there is any built-in support in Proj.4 to do an arbitrary
rotation of the projected plane.
However, if you just need to rotate 90, 180 or 270 degrees, then you could
perhaps use the +axis parameter.


Best regards,


Mikael Rittri
Carmenta
Sweden
http://www.carmenta.com


Den 12 okt 2011 kl. 15:53 skrev "Clifford J Mugnier" <cjmce at lsu.edu>:


I don't know if PROJ4 has it, but the Rosenmund projection as used in
Switzerland sounds like what you want.

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From: proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org on behalf of Duffy, Garret
Sent: Wed 12-Oct-11 06:13
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Subject: [Proj] apply plane rotation after transverse Mercator projection


Hi,
I would like to design a projection that is similar to a TM projection
except append the parameter "XY_Plane_Rotation", i.e. rotate the XY axes.
Is this possible to do in PROJ4?  I note the tmerc doesn't have an alpha
parameter or similar.  I already tried using RSO but it's overkill for what
I want to do, all I want to do is apply a simple cartesian rotation to the
projected XY axes.
Another thing I tried was editing a PRJ file for a TM projected data and
then appending "PARAMETER["XY_Plane_Rotation",XX]" to the file but that
doesn't seem to work.
Do I have to define a custom PROJCS that is based on tmerc but allows for
the XY_Plane_Rotation parameter?
Any suggestions gratefully would be (very) gratefully received as I have
been trying to do this supposedly simple thing all week.
Regards,
Garret
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