EPSG:31469

DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 5

Available transformations
to EPSG:4326
EPSG:4326 - WGS 84

Selected transformation

Remarks: Approximation at the +/- 1m level assuming that ETRF89 is equivalent to WGS 84.

Information source: OGP

Revision date: 1998-06-30

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 5679 for variant with axes order reversed to easting before northing for use in GIS applications.

Area of use: Germany - former West Germany onshore east of 13°30'E - state of Bayern.

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

Center coordinates
5140123.07 5684283.86

Projected bounds:
4808733.5 5237469.83
5426066.6 6145049.48

WGS84 bounds:
5.86 47.27
13.84 55.09

Germany - states of former West Germany onshore - Baden-Wurtemberg, Bayern, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein.
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Definition: OGC Well Known Text 2 (2019)

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Definition: PROJ.4

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Definition: JavaScript (Proj4js)

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