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- noun cartography A value relating to distance east of a standard meridian but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in
UTM the value 500,000 is added to the easting from the center of each zone to return a false easting that is never negative (the smallest true easting is approximately -340,000 which set to false easting of 160,000).
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bilby commented on the word false easting
Whoever wrote that definition ought to be flogged.
March 19, 2019