{"id":1885,"date":"2005-11-25T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1885\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:29:12","slug":"1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1885","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

So, what have I been up to this morning… Well, I had an answer back on a problem I had been having with some software. It comes down to definitions. What does ‘Relative Northing’ and ‘Relative Easting’ mean?<\/p>\n

Well, the first way is that these are relative to your position and to your heading. If something has a relative northing of 1000m, and you are facing north then the object is 1000m to the north. To complicate things, if you look east, and there is a relative northing of 1000m, because it is a ‘Relative Northing’, then the object would be 1000m east of me. This is because of the assumption that the ‘RELATIVE NORTHING’ is relative to what direction you are pointing.<\/p>\n

This is not what the people who are supplying the data thought. Their view is that the ‘Relative Northing’ would always be north regardless of which was I was looking. This is a totally reasonable point of view. It makes sense. It is just not how I thought things would work. Looking back though this is the logical way for things to happen. I guess I would have tried to come up with a better name than ‘Relative Northing’ and ‘Relative Easting’, maybe something like ‘Northing Offset’ and ‘Easting Offset’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, what have I been up to this morning… Well, I had an answer back on a problem I had been having with some software. It comes down to definitions. What does ‘Relative Northing’ and ‘Relative Easting’ mean? Well, the …<\/p>\n

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