Palestine grid
The Palestine grid was the
The system was chosen by the Survey Department of the Government of Palestine in 1922.
At the time the grid was established, there was no intention of mapping the lower reaches of the
During
After the establishment of the State of Israel, the Palestine grid continued to be used under the name of the Israel Grid or the Israeli Cassini Soldner (ICS) grid, now called the "Old Israeli Grid", with 1,000 km added to the northing component to make the northing range continuous. It was replaced by the Israeli Transverse Mercator grid in 1994. The Palestine grid is still commonly used to specify locations in the historical and archaeological literature.
Specifying locations
The basic way of specifying a location on the Palestine grid is to write the east-west coordinate followed by the north-south coordinate using 3 digits each. For example, the Dome of the Rock is at 172132. This specifies the location within one kilometre. If more precision is required, extra digits can be added to each coordinate; for example, 17241317 gives the Dome of the Rock to within 100 metres. Many authors separate the two coordinates with punctuation for readability purposes, for example 172-132 or 172/132.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Dov Gavish (2005). The Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate, 1920–1948. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 73–75.
- ^ a b Dov Gavish (2005). The Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate, 1920–1948. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 219–223.
- ^ For example, the location of Khirbet esh Sheik Mohammed is given as 1417.1984 in D. Pringle (1986). The Red Tower (al-Burj al-ahmar): Settlement in the Plain of Sharon at the time of the Crusaders and the Mamluks A.D. 1099–1516. Jerusalem Monograph Series no. 1. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. p. 71.
Further reading
- Mugnier, Clifford J. (August 2000), "Grids & Datums. The State of Israel" (PDF), Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 66: 915–917, 933