Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

Transverse Mercator (JTM) () is a grid system created by the

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(RJGC). This system is based on 6° belts with a Central Meridian of 37° East and a Scale Factor at Origin (mo) = 0.9998. The JTM is based on the

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adopted by the

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in 1924. No transformation parameters are presently offered by the government.Grids & Datums—Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Article by Clifford J. Mugnier, C.P., C.M.S. However, Prof. Stephen H. Savage of

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provides the following parameters for the projection: Jordan Transverse Mercator Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_International_1924 Datum: D:International_1924 Spheroid: International_1924 Axis: 6378388 Flattening: 297 Prime Meridian: Greenwich Prime Meridian Longitude: 0 Units: Degree Unit Scale Factor: 0.017453292519943295 Projection: Transverse Mercator False Easting: 500,000 False Northing: -3,000,000 Central Meridian: 37 Scale Factor: 0.9998 Central Parallel: 0 Units: Meter Scale Factor 1 Three-parameter transformation to

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is: ΔX = –86 meters ΔY = –98 meters ΔZ = –119 meters Prof. Savage also offers software, ReprojectME!, which will convert coordinates between JTM and other systems. (See http://daahl.ucsd.edu/gaialab/# for more information.) The central meridian of 37° East is roughly midway between the extremes of

: the

Karameh Border Crossing Karameh Border Crossing (Arabic: مركز حدود الكرامة) is the only border crossing between Jordan and Iraq. On the Iraqi side it is called the Turaibil Border Compound (Arabic: مجمع طريبيل الحدودي). The crossing serve ...

with Iraq is close to 39° East, while the city of

Aqaba Aqaba ( , ; , ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative center of the Aqaba Governorate. The city had a population of 148, ...

on the Red Sea is close to 35° East.

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Jordanian Department Of Lands & Survey
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