EPSG:3920

Puerto Rico / UTM zone 20N

Available transformations
to EPSG:4269

Selected transformation

Name: Puerto Rico to NAD83 (1)

Method: NADCON

Grid Files: prvi.las prvi.los

Remarks: Accuracy 0.05m at 67% confidence level. May be taken as approximate transformation Puerto Rico-WGS 84 - see code 15841.

Information source: US Coast & Geodetic Survey www.ngs.noaa.gov

Revision date: 2004-04-27

Attributes

Unit: metre

Geodetic CRS: Puerto Rico

Datum: Puerto Rico

Ellipsoid: Clarke 1866

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: EPSG

Information source: Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

Revision date: 2009-09-05

Scope: Engineering survey, topographic mapping.

Remarks: NAD27 / UTM zone 20N (code 26720) used for military purposes. In 2002 replaced by NAD83 / UTM zone 20N (CRS code 26920).

Area of use: British Virgin Islands - onshore - Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda.

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

Center coordinates
inf inf

Projected bounds:
inf inf
inf inf

WGS84 bounds:
-67.97 17.62
-64.25 18.78

Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands - onshore.
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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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Definition: JSON

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Definition: MapServer - MAPfile

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	"no_defs"
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Definition: Mapnik

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