EPSG:31468

DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 4

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Available transformations
to EPSG:4258
EPSG:4258 - ETRS89

Selected transformation

Method: NTv2

Grid Files: BETA2007.gsb

Remarks: Developed for ATKIS (Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem [Official Topographic and Cartographic Information System]). Provides a uniform transformation across the whole country. May be used as tfm to WGS 84 - see tfm code 15949.

Information source: BKG via EuroGeographics https://crs.bkg.bund.de/ or https://www.crs-geo.eu/

Revision date: 2023-09-28

Attributes

Unit: metre

Geodetic CRS: DHDN

Datum: Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz

Ellipsoid: Bessel 1841

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: EPSG

Information source: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie via EuroGeographics; http://crs.bkg.bund.de/crs-eu/

Revision date: 2012-01-21

Scope: Cadastre, engineering survey, topographic mapping.

Remarks: Zone width 3 degrees. Also used offshore by State Geological Surveys. Not used offshore in oil industry. See CRS code 5678 for variant with axes order reversed to easting before northing for use in GIS applications.

Area of use: Germany - former West Germany onshore between 10°30'E and 13°30'E - states of Bayern, Berlin, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein.

Coordinate system: Cartesian 2D CS. Axes: northing, easting (X,Y). Orientations: north, east. UoM: m.

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Center coordinates
4391723.01 5672810.04

Projected bounds:
4035549.18 5236827.63
4730146.04 6124046.06

WGS84 bounds:
5.86 47.27
15.04 55.09

Germany - onshore - states of Baden-Wurtemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringen.
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Definition: OGC Well Known Text 2 (2019)

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                PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1,
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                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1992"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1993"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1994"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1996"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1997"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000"],
                MEMBER["European Terrestrial Reference Frame 2005"],
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Definition: PROJ.4

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Definition: JavaScript (Proj4js) 

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Definition: JSON

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Definition: MapServer - MAPfile

PROJECTION
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	"x_0=4500000"
	"y_0=0"
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	"units=m"
	"no_defs"
	"type=crs"
END

Definition: Mapnik

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