Proposal for developing the syrian stereographic projection

The conformal stereographic projection adopted by the Syrian survey authorities to represent the geodetic positions was designed for an age of paper maps according to geographical characteristics of Syria in the French mandate time (1920), which includes only the effective and cultural part of the country. Nowadays, this situation has changed since projects of land reclamation and of exploring petroleum in Al Gazira have been launched as well as modern surveying techniques such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been applied. This paper aims at overcoming the defects in the Syrian stereographic projection of the whole country by suggesting a new calculation approach and minimizing the errors in linear scale.