Declination Diagram Tool

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05-30-2012 09:35 AM
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RobBuckhouse
New Contributor III

With the advent of True North arrows in Arc10, a tool for adding a declination diagram would be awesome. Possibly as easy as Insert > Declination Diagram.

For those that don't know, a declination diagram is frequently used in military applications, but is also found elsewhere. It is a graphic representation of the angular differences between True North, Magnetic North, and Grid North.

It looks like this

3 Comments
ChrisMathers
PLTS could do this and I think I read its going to be part of core in v10.1
jcokin1
This idea is similar and should be combined with the following idea already posted on the portal:

North Arrow Enhancment
https://community.esri.com/ideas/2243

ChrisGranger
Esri Defense Mapping for ArcGIS Desktop has this capability.