MI Palestine Belt Transverse Mercator

[Cliff Mugnier - University of New Orleans]

John,

The Palestine Belt replaced the Palestine Grid (1928-1942), which was based on
the Cassini-Soldner projection.

The Palestine TM Belt is a Gauss-Kruger TM where the C.M.= 35*12'43.49" East of
Greenwich, Scale Factor at Origin is unity, False Northing Latitude @ Origin =
31*44'02.7490" North, the False Easting is 170251.555 meters, and the False
Norting is 126867.909 meters.

The Clark 1880 used for the Palestine Datum of 1928 is where a = 6,378,300.782
meters, and first eccentricity squared = 0.00680348101782.  Note that there are
several versions of the Clark 1880, the Palestine version is different than the
one used say, in Africa.

The European Datum 1950 is commonly used in the area also, and note that the
first geodetic surveys in the Palestine were done by the military surveyors of
Napoleon Bonaparte!!!!  Remember reading about when Napoleon conquered Egypt? 
Well, he did a bit of sight-seeing while on the trip of conquests ...

-- 
Clifford J. Mugnier ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Topographic Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, Louisiana  70148

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John wrote:
> 
> Cliff,
> I was wondering what information you might have on the 1000 metre Palestine
> Belt grid, Clarke 1880 spheroid. I can find data on the Palestine 1928 datum, > but 
>nothing on the Palestine Belt projection. 
> I don't know what projection system was used, or
> what the constants are. There is a gentleman in Jordan who has several
> maps. Some have U.T.M. grid ticks along with the Palestine Belt grid ticks,
> other maps have only the Palestine Belt Grid ticks, and he'd like to be
> able to integrate his data and convert it to U.T.M. As I said, I have no
> problem finding the Palestine 1928 datum, and as none of his maps mention
> any other datum, I suspect that no datum transforms will be required. This
> is also suggested by the fact that the most recent maps indicate that they
> were made in 1978, which predates GRS80 and WGS84.
> 
>
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