{"id":7347,"date":"2025-02-03T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/epsg-code\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:25:20","slug":"epsg-code","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/epsg-code\/","title":{"rendered":"EPSG Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are thousands of coordinate systems. Each one is suitable for a specific application: <\/p>\n

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  1. Some are less accurate but cover the entire Earth,<\/li>\n
  2. Others are very accurate, but only within a specific area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For many years, there was a problem with the naming of coordinate systems, until the European Petroleum Survey Group introduced a classification and assigned a unique code to each system. For example, PUWG 1992 received the code 2180 and in most GIS systems it is identified as EPSG:2180.<\/a> <\/p>\n

    More information can be found in the article \u201cCoordinate Systems in Practice\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are thousands of coordinate systems. Each one is suitable for a specific application: Some are less accurate but cover the entire Earth, Others are very accurate, but only within a specific area. For many years, there was a problem with the naming of coordinate systems, until the European Petroleum Survey Group introduced a classification […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7347","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}