Cartesian
Applied digital documentation In the historic environment, published on 19 March 2018 by Historic Scotland, defines cartesian as: ‘A coordinate system that assigns two (for 2D space) or three (for 3D space) numerical coordinates for a point.’
The Geospatial Glossary, published by the Geospatial Commission, and accessed on 17 September 2022, defines a cartesian coordinate system as: ‘A coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in the same unit of length.’
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