HPGN Grids
With the support of i-cubed, I (Frank Warmerdam) have written tools to translate the HPGN grids from NOAA/NGS from .los/.las format into NTv2 format for convenient use with PROJ.4. This project included implementing a .los/.las reader for GDAL, and an NTv2 reader/writer. Also, a script to do the bulk translation was implemented ( loslas2ntv2.py). The command to do the translation was:
loslas2ntv2.py -auto *hpgn.los
As GDAL uses NAD83/WGS84 as a pivot datum, the sense of the HPGN datum shift offsets were negated to map from HPGN to NAD83 instead of the other way. The files can be used with PROJ.4 like this:
cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83
+to +proj=latlong +nadgrids=./azhpgn.gsb +ellps=GRS80
input:
-112 34
output:
111d59'59.996"W 34d0'0.006"N -0.000
This was confirmed against the NGS HPGN calculator at:
The grids are available at:
Use at your own risk!
See Also: HTDPGrids
