EPSG systems

EPSG:8042 Gusterberg (Ferro)

Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Europe - Upper Austria, Salzburg and Bohemia. 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.

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System record
Code	EPSG:8042
Name	Gusterberg (Ferro)
Type	Geographic system
Area of use	Europe - Upper Austria, Salzburg and Bohemia Austria - Upper Austria and Salzburg provinces. Czechia - Bohemia.
Bounds	W 12,07° · S 46,93° · E 16,83° · N 51,06°
Countries	Austria, Czechia
Datum	Gusterberg (Ferro)
Ellipsoid	Zach 1812 a = 6376045 m · 1/f = 310
Prime meridian	Ferro -17.666666666666668 degree
Unit	degree (Lat north, Lon east)
Transformation to WGS 84	No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
Scope	Cadastre.

proj4 definition

+proj=longlat +a=6376045 +rf=310 +pm=ferro +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:8042.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

GEOGCS["Gusterberg(Ferro)",DATUM["Gusterberg_(Ferro)",SPHEROID["Zach_1812",6376045.0,310.0]],PRIMEM["Ferro",-17.6666666666667],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

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

proj4 definition

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

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