EPSG:3991

Puerto Rico State Plane CS of 1927

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: US survey foot

Geodetic CRS: Puerto Rico

Datum: Puerto Rico

Ellipsoid: Clarke 1866

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: EPSG

Information source: US National Geodetic Survey

Revision date: 2009-09-05

Scope: Engineering survey, topographic mapping.

Remarks: Sometimes erroneously referred to as NAD27 / Puerto Rico State Plane CS.

Area of use: Puerto Rico - onshore.

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

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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