Description of CRS - ETRS89-TMzn
AttributeEntry
Countrypan-European CRS
Country identifierEU
CRS identifierETRS89-TMzn
CRS alias
ETRS89 Transverse Mercator CRS
ETRS-TMzn
EPSG codes: 3038...3051 for zone 26...39
CRS valid areaEurope
CRS scopeCRS for conformal pan-European mapping at scales larger than 1 : 500 000
CRS remarks
zn is the zone number, the numbering is analog UTM 
(starting with 1 for 180° West increasing eastwards to 
180° East) but only valid for Europe zn 26 for central 
meridian 27° West to zn 39 for central meridian 51° East 
Datum identifierETRS89
Datum alias
European Terrestrial Reference System 1989
Datum typegeodetic
Datum anchor point
Datum realization epoch
Datum valid area
Europe
Datum scope
European datum consistent with ITRS at the epoch 1989.0 
and fixed to the stable part of the Eurasian continental 
plate for georeferencing of GIS and geokinematic tasks 
Datum remarks
see
Boucher, C., Altamimi, Z. (1992): The EUREF Terrestrial 
Reference System and its First Realizations. 
Veröffentlichungen der Bayerischen Kommission für die 
Internationale Erdmessung, Heft 52, München 1992, pages 
205-213 
- or -
http://etrs89.ensg.ign.fr/
Prime meridian identifierGreenwich
Prime meridian greenwich longitude
Prime meridian remarks
Ellipsoid identifierGRS 80
Ellipsoid aliasNew International
Ellipsoid semi major axis6 378 137 m
Ellipsoid shapetrue
Ellipsoid inverse flattening298.257222101
Ellipsoid remarkssee Moritz, H. (1988): Geodetic Reference System 1980. Bulletin Geodesique, The Geodesists Handbook, 1988, Internat. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Coordinate system identifierTMzn
Coordinate system typeprojected
Coordinate system dimension2
Coordinate system remarksProjection: Transverse Mercator in zones, 6° width in general
Coordinate system axis nameN
Coordinate system axis directionNorth
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Coordinate system axis nameE
Coordinate system axis directionEast
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Operation identifierTMzn
Operation valid areaEurope
Operation scopefor conformal pan-European mapping at scales larger than 1: 500 000
Operation method nameTransverse Mercator Projection
Operation method name alias
TMzn
Operation method formula
Transverse Mercator Mapping Equations, in Hooijberg, 
Practical Geodesy, 1997, pages 81-84, 111-114 
Operation method parameters number8
Operation method remarks
Operation parameter namelatitude of origin
Operation parameter value
Operation parameter remarks0°, the Equator
Operation parameter namelongitude of origin
Operation parameter value
central meridian (CM) of each zone
Operation parameter remarkscentral meridians 27°W, 21° W, ... , 45°E, 51°E
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
0 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
500 000 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namescale factor at central meridian
Operation parameter value
0.9996
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namezone number zn
Operation parameter value
26, 27, 28, ... , 38, 39
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namewidth of zones
Operation parameter value
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelatitude limits of system
Operation parameter value
0°
84° N
Operation parameter remarks