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Comment by xavieralexandre

1 month ago

Thanks. I was mostly basing my answer on my experience with nautical charts, where declination corrections are typically uniform over relatively large areas and local anomalies are less of a concern. I hadn’t considered how much more variable the field can be in terrestrial use.

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