In 1933, the North Carolina Department of Transportation asked the Coast and Geodetic Survey to assist in creating a comprehensive method for converting curvilinear coordinates (latitude and longitude) to a user-friendly, 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
In 1933, the North Carolina Department of Transportation requested the Coast and Geodetic Survey to help develop a method for converting curved coordinates (latitude and longitude) into a user-friendly, two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.