[Freegis-list] datum definition for belgian Uccle

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:37:05AM +0100, Michael Bock wrote:
> Hi GIS specialists,
> 
> my problem is to transform mass of coordinates from belgian system to
> geographic. 
> I'm currently trying out 'FERAL' (A Map Projection
> And Datum Transformation Utility) I found on www.freegis.org. This
> software could be very useful but unfortunatly the belgian datum of
> Uccle is not defined in the datum-list of FERAL. Needed are the
> deviations referring to WGS84.
> 
> Does anyone know a resource of information on the internet, where such
> defintions/deviations of datum could be found?
> 
> Many thanks
> 

Hi Michael,

yes - have a look here:

Grids & Datums
http://www.asprs.org/asprs/resources/grids/
Kingdom of Belgium (reprinted from October 1998 PE&RS) 

It should be explained there.

Best regards

 Markus

PS: Kind regards to Ruediger :-)
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