Application Areas

The Snake concept can be used on any broadly linear engineering project, such as railways, highways  and pipelines. Provided the project can fit into a gently curving corridor a few kilometres wide then  we'll be able to fit a grid to it that keeps distortions less than 20 ppm. In practice this means just  about any rail route or major highway. Once the grid is established the software can be used to convert  ellipsoidal coordinates as required. Once this has been done then users can generally adopt a "flat  Earth" assumption in all subsequent work -  traverses and other terrestrial survey observations can  be run without any scale factor correction or reduction to sea level, design work will match the situation  on the ground at true scale, and so on.

SnakeGrid Transformer, a espcially designed product runs on Bentley Micro Statition and AutoCAD packages.