Description of CRS - PL_EUREF89 / 1992
AttributeEntry
CountryPoland
Country identifierPL
CRS identifierPL_EUREF89 / 1992
CRS alias
CRS valid areaPoland
CRS scope
CRS remarks
Datum identifierEUREF89
Datum alias
EUREF-POL, ETRF-89
Datum typegeodetic
Datum anchor point
11 points of EUREF-POL
Datum realization epoch1992.5
Datum valid area
in general: Europe,
in this realisation: Poland
Datum scope
used officialy in Poland from year 2000
Datum remarks
- the EUREF-89 coordinates are derived from the final 
solution of the EUREF-POL 92 campaign, observed in July 
1992 
- refer to ETRS89 - therefore no transformation parameters 
to ETRS89 exist 
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 identifier1992
Coordinate system typeprojected
Coordinate system dimension2
Coordinate system remarks
Coordinate system axis namex / northing
Coordinate system axis directionNorth
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Coordinate system axis namey / easting
Coordinate system axis directionEast
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Operation identifier1992
Operation valid areaPoland
Operation scopeprecise computation procedure for all aplications, specially mapping at scales 1:10000 and smaller
Operation method nameTransverse Mercator Projection
Operation method name alias
Gauß Krüger Projection
Operation method formula
see Panasiuk J., Balcerzak J., Gdowski B.: Projection of 
the territory of Poland in wide Gauss Krüger zone, The 
Polish Cartography, The Head Office of Geodesy and 
Cartography, Warzawa 1999 
Operation method parameters number7
Operation method remarks
one zone in Transverse Mercator Projection for whole Poland
Operation parameter namelatitude of origin
Operation parameter value
Operation parameter remarks0°, the Equator
Operation parameter namelongitude of origin
Operation parameter value
19° E
Operation parameter remarkscentral meridian of zone
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
-5 300 000.00 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
500 000.00 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namescale factor at central meridian
Operation parameter value
0.9993
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namewidth of zone
Operation parameter value
10°30'
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelimits of zone
Operation parameter value
14°00' E ... 24°30' E
Operation parameter remarks