DatumFlattening Property

 

The DatumFlattening property returns or sets a datum's flattening ratio as a result of 1 / f for the user defined ellipsoid type in the Molodensky and Bursa-Wolf methods. Returns a double.

 

Syntax

object.DatumFlattening

object.DatumFlattening = DatumFlattening

 

Parameter

Type

Description

DatumFlattening

Double

required; flattening amount

 

Example 1

This example returns the datum flattening ratio for a projection.

 

Debug.Print Proj.DatumFlattening

 

Example 2

This example sets the datum flattening ratio value to 295.

 

Proj.DatumFlattening = 295

 

Used by: Projection object