EPSG systems

EPSG:4751 Kertau (RSO)

Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Asia - Malaysia (west) and Singapore. Datum, ellipsoid and transformation to WGS 84 below.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

System record
CodeEPSG:4751
NameKertau (RSO)
TypeGeographic system
Area of use Asia - Malaysia (west) and Singapore
Malaysia - West Malaysia; Singapore.
Bounds W 99,59° · S 1,13° · E 104,60° · N 6,72°
Countries Malaysia, Singapore
DatumKertau (RSO)
Ellipsoid Everest 1830 (RSO 1969) a = 6377295.664 m · 1/f = 300.8017
Unit degree (Lat north, Lon east)
Transformation to WGS 84 No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
ScopeMetrication of RSO grid.

proj4 definition

+proj=longlat +ellps=evrst69 +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:4751.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

GEOGCS["GCS_Kertau_RSO",DATUM["D_Kertau_RSO",SPHEROID["Everest_Modified_1969",6377295.664,300.8017]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

All systems — Malaysia

Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.