[PROJ] GRS80 ellipsoid off-center

[Pierre Abbat]

I'm at the North Carolina surveyors' conference, and yesterday I attended the 
talk about the new coordinate systems coming in 2022. The projection will 
still be conformal conic, with some changes. There will be one parallel and a 
scale factor instead of two parallels. (The representations are equivalent, 
and I've written code that converts two parallels into one parallel and a 
scale factor.) The false easting will be a round number in metric rather than 
feet converted to meters and rounded to the centimeter. And the ellipsoid will 
be centered at the center of mass of the earth, rather than a few meters off.

I asked the speaker what name to use to distinguish the two ellipsoids. He 
didn't know, said they're both GRS80. I mentioned that the Greek ellipsoid 
(HGRS87, but I didn't remember the name at the moment) has the same shape, but 
is offset to fit Greece better, and has its own name. Is there a retronym to 
distinguish the previous GRS80, which turned out to be slightly offset, from 
GRS80 centered at the center of the earth?

Pierre
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Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.