(If the lines are further east, then the longitude value of any given point is further west. The WGS 84 latitude lines are about 70 m south of the OSGB 36 lines in South Cornwall, the difference diminishing to zero in the Scottish Borders, and then increasing to about 50 m north on the north coast of Scotland. In Cornwall, the WGS 84 longitude lines are about 70 metres east of their OSGB 36 equivalents, this value rising gradually to about 120 m east on the east coast of East Anglia. The longitude and latitude positions on OSGB 36 are the same as for WGS 84 at a point in the Atlantic Ocean well to the west of Great Britain. The difference between the coordinates on different datums varies from place to place. This models the detailed distortions in the 1936вЂ“1962 retriangulation, and achieves backwards compatibility in grid coordinates to sub-metre accuracy. The definitive transformation from ETRS89 that is published by the OSGB is called the National Grid Transformation OSTN02. The most common transformation is called the Helmert datum transformation, which results in a typical 7 m error from true. OSGB 36 was also used by Admiralty nautical charts until 2000 after which WGS 84 has been used.ДЄ geodetic transformation between OSGB 36 and other terrestrial reference systems (like ITRF2000, ETRS89, or WGS 84) can become quite tedious if attempted manually. Grid north and true north are only aligned on the 400 km easting of the grid which is 2В° W (OSGB36) and approx. The distortion created between the OS grid and the projection is countered by a scale factor in the longitude to create two lines of longitude with zero distortion rather than one. This false origin is located south-west of the Isles of Scilly. Over the Airy ellipsoid a straight line grid, the National Grid, is placed with a new false origin (to eliminate negative numbers), creating a 700 km by 1300 km grid. The maps adopt a Transverse Mercator projection with an origin (the 'true' origin) at 49В° N, 2В° W (an offshore point in the English Channel which lies between the island of Jersey and the French port of St. The Airy ellipsoid is a regional best fit for Britain more modern mapping tends to use the GRS80 ellipsoid used by the GPS (the Airy ellipsoid assumes the Earth to be about 1 km smaller in diameter than the GRS80 ellipsoid, and to be slightly less flattened). It replaced the previously used Cassini Grid which, up to the end of World War Two, had been issued only to the military. The grid is based on the OSGB36 datum (Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936, based on the Airy 1830 ellipsoid), and was introduced after the retriangulation of 1936вЂ“1962. The map shows The Wash and the North Sea, as well as places within the counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. European-wide agencies also use UTM when mapping locations, or may use the military grid reference system (MGRS) system, or variants thereof. The Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system (UTM) is used to provide grid references for worldwide locations and this is the system commonly used for the Channel Islands. Grid references are also commonly quoted in other publications and data sources, such as guide books or government planning documents.ДЄ number of different systems exist that can provide grid references for locations within the British Isles: this article describes the system created solely for Great Britain and its outlying islands (including the Isle of Man) the Irish grid reference system is a similar system created by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland for the island of Ireland. The Ordnance Survey (OS) devised the national grid reference system, and it is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey or commercial map producers) based on those surveys. It is often called British National Grid (BNG). The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude. Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID).International Terrestrial Reference System.

Ordnance survey grids