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Update North info in cartesian style docs
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.. note:: Cartesian data are relative to **true** North not
**magnetic** North (i.e. they are unaffected by ``*declination``
and ``*calibrate declination``). In Survex < 1.4.10, if ``*cs``
was used then cartesian data were incorrectly interpreted as
relative to grid North in the output coordinate system
By default, the North used is True North, but you can specify to use
Magnetic or Grid North (in the input coordinate system) with the
``*cartesian`` command, and also specify an additional rotation to
apply (since Survex 1.4.10).

In Survex < 1.4.10, if ``*cs`` was used then cartesian data were
incorrectly interpreted as relative to Grid North in the output
coordinate system (if ``*cs`` is not used then Grid North in the
default unspecified coordinate system is the same as True North).

CYLPOLAR
A ``CYLPOLAR`` style survey is very similar to a diving survey, except
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