RE: [Man.Distr]Re: Northing

From: <Sajit>
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 23:22:00 EDT

Called north, True north, plant north what not. I thought it had some relevance to piping plot plans and/or layouts. If it did not, my apologies.

Sajit

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From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:23 PM To: ?
Subject: [Man.Distr]Re: [PipingDesign] Northing

>Does anyone know whether the direction shown by a compass is the magnetic
>north or the geographic north. What is the offset angle and the direction
>with respect to the other.

A magnetic compass shows magnetic north, which can vary from true north by a little or a lot, depending on where you are with respect to the magnetic pole. Do a Google search on "magnetic pole." What the hell brought this up on a piping list?

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Fri Oct 17 23:22:00 2003