Airy spheroid
The Airy spheroid or Airy ellipsoid is a mathematical model of the Earth, an Earth ellipsoid, designed to fit the well for the British Isles. It is named after its inventor George Biddell Airy, a nineteenth century English mathematician.
Airy 1830 ellipsoid
[edit | edit source]The Airy 1830 ellipsoid has an equatorial radius of 6,377,563.396 m, a polar radius of 6,356,256.909 m and an inverse flattening of 299.3249646.
The original definition was in feet - using the 1796 definition of the foot, an equatorial radius of 20,923,713 ft and a polar radius of 20,853,810 ft.[1] When the Ordnance Survey retriangulated in 1936 they defined a conversion to metres, namely a ratio of (10^0.48401603)/10 which is approximately 1 ft = 0.3048007491 m.[1]
Airy Modified 1849
[edit | edit source]The 1849 ellipsoid (EPSG:7002), known as Airy Modified 1849, is the 1830 ellipsoid scaled by 0.999965 to better fit the primary triangulation of Ireland.[2]
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