Talk:Easting and northing

Point of Reference?

What is the point of reference the measurements are made relative to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.54.214.164 (talk) 06:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

It depends on the projection, but commonly there is a reference latitude and longitude. Additionally, some projections like UTM have a false eastings/northings to ensure the coordinates are positive. +mt 22:46, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

easting and northing now merged

I've merged the two articles, however one sentance common to both I have left out, since it doesn't really say anything useful:

Typically in mathematics, and in land surveying in most parts of the world, an XYZ convention is used for representing locations in plane surveying, however in the United States for land surveying applications, an NEZ convention is also quite common.

+mwtoews 00:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Example?

Can someone add an example of how to write an easting and northing, explaining the degrees etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.196.56.36 (talk) 05:11, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Conventions

I am not sure that I understand the example under the "Conventions" heading. The first sentence would seem to indicate that the example coordinates are backwards or at least not conventional. However, most that I have seen in the geocaching world seem to offer Northing first and Easting second. Is there anyone that can comment Linusvpelt (talk) 16:53, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

In my experience, in North America they like N,E (based on the idea that north is more important I guess) and in UK & Ireland they like E,N (based on customary graphs where the x-value is normally written first). I don't know about other places. This is an important point, vital to getting your coordinates right. As you noticed, the example is in conventional American format, but the rest of the article is the other way. I don't know why that sentence was deleted when merged, as it went some way towards explaining this difference. 207.54.123.139 (talk) 16:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Imperial survey foot?

How can the survey foot, which does not exist in Britain, be an example of an imperial unit? I intend to replace "imperial" by "other", so as to include the US and Indian survey feet among the units that might be used for easting and northing.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.122.49.58 (talk) 2016-06-02T02:38:55‎

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