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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,
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then became a source of confusion, which was solved by adding 1000 to the negative northings, running from about 900 to 1000 and from 0 to 300. For some military purposes, 1000 was added to the northing coordinates of all locations, so that they then ranged from about 900 to about 1300.
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grid in 1994. The
Palestine grid is still commonly used to specify locations in the historical and archaeological literature.
50:(the line of longitude along which there is no local distortion) was chosen as that passing through a marker on the hill of
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Department of the Government of Palestine in 1922. The projection used was the
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projection. The difference between the two projections was only a few metres.
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174:. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 73–75.
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211:(1986).
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