[Proj] Converting between true north, grid north, and magnetic north
Chen Barnoy
jicrbuh1 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 04:08:01 PST 2018
Thanks!
And is there a similar library to convert between grid\UTM north to true
north?
2018-01-30 23:59 GMT+02:00 Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com>:
> Be aware that the magnetic field is time varying. It can change pretty
> quickly near the magnetic poles.
>
> Yet another source... igrf.py
>
> https://earthref.org/PmagPy/cookbook/#x1-1190005.2.54
>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com>
wrote:
> GeographicLib https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io provides access to
> several magnetic models via the MagneticField utility. E.g.,
>
> echo 42.363 -71.006 | MagneticField -t now
>
> =>
>
> -14.67 67.08 20228.0 19569.1 -5121.1 47840.0 51940.7
>
> The first number is the current magnetic declination at Boston Logan
> Airport using the wmm2015 magnetic model.
>
> The magnetic models need to be downloaded separately from the
> GeographicLib library using
>
> geographiclib-get-magnetic
>
> On 01/30/18 06:42, Chen Barnoy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to convert between grid north, true north and magnetic
> > north in Proj4 or another library?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chen
> >
> >
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