EPSG:2136

Accra / Ghana National Grid

Selected transformation

Remarks: Can be implemented as a position vector tfm dX=-171.16 dY=17.29 dZ=325.21m, rX=rY=0 rZ=0.814", dS=-0.38 ppm. See tfm code 15495. Found in use within oil industry erroneously concatenated as dX=-171.16 dY=17.29 dZ=327.81m, rX=rY0 rZ=0.554", dS=0.2263 ppm.

Information source: OGP

Revision date: 2020-03-14

Attributes

Unit: Gold Coast foot

Geodetic CRS: Accra

Datum: Accra

Ellipsoid: War Office

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: EPSG

Information source: Ordnance Survey International

Revision date: 2023-11-19

Scope: Engineering survey, topographic mapping.

Remarks: Ellipsoid semi-major axis (a)=20926201 Gold Coast feet. ProjCRS sometimes found in metric form: 1 Gold Coast foot = 0.3047997101815 m. Replaced by Leigon / Ghana Metric Grid from 1978.

Area of use: Ghana - onshore.

Coordinate system: Cartesian 2D CS. Axes: easting, northing (E,N). Orientations: east, north. UoM: ftGC.

Center coordinates
956347.02 -340752.4

Projected bounds:
-118946.35 -1185834.03
2031994.74 507583.51

WGS84 bounds:
-3.79 1.4
2.1 6.06

Ghana - offshore.
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Definition: OGC Well Known Text 2 (2019)

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                MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G1150)"],
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                MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G1762)"],
                MEMBER["World Geodetic System 1984 (G2139)"],
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        PARAMETER["Y-axis translation",0,
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        PARAMETER["X-axis rotation",0,
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        PARAMETER["Y-axis rotation",0,
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        PARAMETER["Scale difference",0.99999962,
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        USAGE[
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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

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Definition: Mapnik

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