Systèmes EPSG

EPSG:26718 NAD27 / UTM zone 18N

Système projeté (Transverse Mercator) en usage : North America - 78°W to 72°W and NAD27 by country. La définition complète ci-dessous, et la conversion en un clic.

Fiche du système
CodeEPSG:26718
NomNAD27 / UTM zone 18N
TypeSystème projeté — Transverse Mercator
Zone d'usage North America - 78°W to 72°W and NAD27 by country
North America - between 78°W and 72°W. Bahamas. Canada - Nunavut; Ontario; Quebec. Cuba. United States (USA) - Connecticut; Delaware; Maryland; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Virginia; Vermont. Onshore for Canadian arctic. onshore and offshore for US east coast and Cuba, with usage in Bahamas onshore plus offshore over internal continental shelf only.
Emprise O -78,00° · S 18,83° · E -72,00° · N 83,16°
Couvre aussi Bahamas, Canada, Cuba, États-Unis, Jersey
DatumNorth American Datum 1927
Ellipsoïde Clarke 1866 a = 6378206.4 m · 1/f = 294.978698214
Système géographique de base EPSG:4267 — NAD27
Unité metre (E east, N north)
Transformation vers WGS 84 NAD27 to WGS 84 (3) (EPSG:1172) — précision 20 m
UsageEngineering survey, topographic mapping.

Paramètres de la projection

ParamètreValeurUnité
Latitude of natural origin0degree
Longitude of natural origin-75degree
Scale factor at natural origin0.9996unity
False easting500000metre
False northing0metre

Définition proj4

+proj=utm +zone=18 +a=6378206.4000000004 +rf=294.9786982139 +units=m +towgs84=-10,158,187 +no_defs

À coller dans QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) ou GDAL. +towgs84 porte la transformation EPSG vers WGS 84 ; le code officiel reste EPSG:26718.

WKT (format ESRI, contenu du .prj)

PROJCS["NAD_1927_UTM_Zone_18N",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1927",DATUM["D_North_American_1927",SPHEROID["Clarke_1866",6378206.4,294.978698213898]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-75.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

Source : registre EPSG v11.022 (IOGP), via la base PROJ. Vérifiez toujours un code sur epsg.org avant un travail contractuel.