The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) geographic coordinate system uses a 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system to give locations on the surface of the Earth.
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What is the most accurate coordinate system for calculating areas of polygons?
I have multiple polygons, all located offshore around the UK. I am trying to calculate the areas of these polygons in square kilometres, without splitting them by UTM zone.
Is it possible to do this ...
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Calculate distortion outside a UTM zone
One of my colleagues is working with data that is spread across two UTM zone. The majority of the data is in one zone, with a few outliers in another zone. He would like to know what the area ...
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Batch convert lat longs to UTM?
I've got a .csv file that contains a long list of latitude and longitude points. Is there an efficient way to batch convert the list into a projected UTM coordinate system?
Thanks.
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Determine the UTM zone/hemisphere in a particular datum
I'm using GDAL to convert coordinates from one system (geographic or projected) to another.
Assume I want to convert geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the WGS84 datum, to UTM ...
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pyproj, proj4 doesn't return same coordinates after inverse conversion
I'm trying to interpolate between coordinates, as a step in that process I convert latlong to UTM so I can work in metric.
I don't get the expected latlong when converting back, reproduced below:
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Source for UTM Zone File
I'm looking for a complete, freely available file showing UTM Grid zones. Preferably not a simplified version, but one that shows the full grid zones and all 'exceptions' (e.g. in Northern Europe) - ...
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How to reproject a vector layer in QGIS?
I have some shape file which is in UTM. I wanted them to convert to Decimal Degreesin QGIS.
Hope I can get some better response..
Thanks.
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Matching ArcGIS and QGIS coordinate systems
I have the following info for a feature class in ArcGIS that is supposed to be in WGS 1984/UTM 16N projected coordinate system:
Projection: Transverse_Mercator
False_Easting: 500000.000000
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How do I get the x- and y-coordinate values of points in UTM using QGIS?
To get to know the size of the study area and how far objects are separated, I need to know x- and y-coordinate values.
Although the $x and $y of Field Calculator returned latitudes and longitudes, ...
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How to generate a shapefile containing an UTM grid (graticule)?
I'm looking for a shapefile containing an 1000m or 2000m UTM grid ("graticule"). All I was about to find on the web is a 10000m UTM grid (here: http://en.giswiki.net/wiki/UTM) and I am aware that a ...
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How to detect MGRS/UTM zone?
I posted a similar question on StackOverflow, but I thought I'd check here as well.
I am developing an open-source library for converting between coordinate systems, and I've run into a wall.
I want ...
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Are there WMS servers providing maps of UTM zones, actually in the zone projection?
There are lots of EPSG:4326 (lat lon) services out there but if one has to use an UTM projected map as base layer to display utm scenes, are there any WMS endpoints publicly available for that?
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Getting zone from UTM in order to convert to latlong
I am trying to convert UTM to a latlong point. To get that done I need to know the zone where the UTM coordinates are. how can I find the zone from UTM?. the place coordinates that I work on lay on ...
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projection issues from ArcGIS to Qgis
I am pretty new to ArcGIS and Qgis. I have loaded some geometry data in Qgis from my postgres database, then I have also loaded the same data in ArcGIS. Then from ArcGIS i have created a shapefile ...
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What does 'projected bounds' and 'WGS84 bounds' mean in the definition of a CRS (on spatialreference.org)?
The site http://spatialreference.org gives 'Projected Bounds' and 'WGS84 Bounds' for each Coordinate System. What does these 'bounds' mean? e.g. for ETRS89 / UTM zone 32 N this is given:
I know what ...
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How to transform KML from lon-lat to UTM (E-N), using Python?
I have a lot of KML files set as lon-lat (geographic coordinates) and want to set them as UTM (E-N) and WGS84 with Python (using arcpy, ogr, or gdal)
Does anyone knows how to do this?
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UTM Grid as a Layer with Leaflet
How can I display a UTM Grid as a layer with Leaflet?
Search a way to embed a OpenStreetMap map with Leaflet in a website.
Particularity. I want to display a UTM Grid as a Layer.
In addition, lower ...
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Convert Lat/Long to UTM specifying which zone to use (Java)
I have a set of coordinates in decimal degrees spread across two UTM zones in my Java application that I want to export to use in Petrel, so they need to be in the same UTM zone.
Is there a java ...
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Convert geographic coordinates to UTM zone 29N with Javascript
I have an issue converting lat longs to UTM with the ArcGIS javscript API.
Lets say that I have a map, based on the UTM zone 29N, also known as WKID 32629.
I have a known set of coordinates from a ...
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UTM coordinate conversion to Geographic coordinates
I have about 500 separate files containing GPS points in UTM coordinates from multiple zones.
I am looking for a simple and fast python or Php script that i can use to carry out a batch conversion ...
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I want to import an Excel spread sheet with desc, northing and easting into Google Earth to make a KMZ
I have a spread sheet with three columns containing a Description, a Northing and an Easting in UTM. Instead of entering the points in by hand, I want to find a faster method.
Any help is greatly ...
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How to convert Lat/Long to UTM using Proj(4j) similar to JScience UTM.latLongToUTM?
I'd like to use Proj(4j) to convert between UTM and Lat/Long coordinates.
I used to use JScience for UTM <-> LatLong conversions like this:
UTM.latLongToUtm(latlong, ReferenceEllipsoid.WGS84);
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Project layer with custom projection
My ultimate goal is to know UTM and UTM Northing and Easting. The data can be anywhere in North america. I calculated UTM using arcpy tool (arcpy.CalculateUTMZone_cartography) and I tried to truncate ...
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Convert Lat/Long to UTM specifying which zone to use (C++)
I need to convert Latitude/Longitude coordinates into UTM, in C++, specifying which zone to use.
I am working with locations that fall in two zones, and would like to project them all into one zone - ...
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Go to X,Y dialog box
If someone gave you a x,y coordinate numbers he/she got from. I put the numbers in the X,Y events on my ArcMap and they are in Meters numbers. We entered the number into the x,y dialog box. The ...
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Does it make sense to create graticules using UTM meters?
Here's what I think I know, but I'm a geography newbie, so please correct any misconceptions I have, especially with regard to the term graticule.
A graticule is a specialized grid where the lines ...
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How to convert from EPSG:4326 to WGS84/UTM 32U?
I am unable to convert from the project's coordinate system to a different one using QGis 1.8.0.
I have a .shp file with a certain coordinate system information (WGS84 EPSG:4326 according to qgis). I ...
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How to find bounding coordinates (lat/long) for UTM zones?
I want to error check incoming lat/lng points by checking if the point resides within the given UTM zone. (This would work for the data im using because sometimes there is a missing sign or lat/lng is ...
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Searching for c# code to convert from UTM to WGS1984 (and back)
I'm looking for code in c# that converts coordinates from UTM to WGS1984 (and preferably backwards as well). I need to convert coordinates from only one zone (36N).
I've found this and this, but they ...
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Using gdal to convert from UTM to equidistant lat/lon
I am getting rather confused with converting a UTM gridded dataset into a equidistant/rectangular latlon gridded dataset. Can anybody help me?
I have a UTM set with the following projection:
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What is UTM Zone 0?
I am currently working with some roadway link data and it is being projected in UTM.
After importing the shapefile into GRASS I can view the map and it looks correct but when I view the projection ...
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How to reproject a raster in QGIS? [closed]
I wanted to reproject raster file from UTM to decimal degree in QGIS version 1.7.1 or 1.8.0..
I could reproject one raster file before in QGIS Version 1.8.0. I have tried again, but now we cannot ...
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Creating a Google Maps GroundOverlay with UTM NAD83 data
Edit4: The solution I posted from Jenner at VBforums was, obviously, in VB, and I used an online converter to port it to C#. Something was lost in translations, and that's why it was 10 miles off.
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gdal_translate made wrong tranforms
I have a geotiff file in UTM and units in meters. I used gdal_translate with this command :
gdal_translate -of GTiff -a_nodata 0 -a_srs EPSG:4326 old.tif new.tif
gdalinfo on new.tif shows that the ...
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Easting and Northing range in UTM
I'm working in the development of an user interface in which the user should be able to enter a UTM coordinate in the following format:
I don't know much about these type of systems, but I ...
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Way to add 1km x 1km UTM grid onto online map service
Is there any exist services or way to add 1km x 1km UTM grid onto online map service such as Google Maps or OpenStreetMap?
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Getting a “square” of lat/lon for database query [duplicate]
So I want to get the square formed by a single point of lat/lons, my plan was to take that point's latitude, divide by 360, and multiply by the circumference of earth. Giving us the distance from the ...
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How to generate a shapefile with UTM Grid precision level 100 m
Does anybody know, if I can download from somewhere UTM Grid for zones 33 to 35 and U belt (for Poland) in shpfile or different format I can convert to shp. I need precision level 100 m. Is it ...
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How to create a custom projection of PRS92 and UTM 51N for the Philippines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to define new custom projections in QGIS?
How do I create a customized CRS parameter in quantum GIS? I'm try to create a projection of PRS92 and UTM 51N. This ...
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Conversion from N,E to Lat/Long And Lat/Long to N,E will always be same? [closed]
I have an excel tool for the conversion of following lat/long:
Lat: 23° 11’ 24.67503’’ S
Long: 118° 46’ 6.15742’’ E , which gives me following N,E:
Northing: 7,434,317.43
Easting: 680,991.69
But I ...
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How to calculate the UTM-Latitude-band?
I have to convert a coordinate from UTM to MGRS. I think I have the most of it covered, but I have some difficulties to calculate the correct Latitude-band. How can I decide which band the coordinate ...
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Global DEM and country borders
I am trying to split up the world into 2 categories based on elevation (below 2000m and above 2000m) while still including a country identifier. So in the end, I would like to have 2 types of units ...
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Getting: org.opengis.referencing.NoSuchIdentifierException: No transform for classification “Transverse Mercator Zoned Grid System” with geotools
Using geotools I've been trying to create a referenced envelope after converting/reprojecting from WGS 84 to UTM with specific zones and it seems that either I need to do something with authority ...
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How to solve the reprojection problem? [closed]
i have used a UTM image to create a shapefiles,after that i have exported it as KML file and it came in the exact position in Google earth,then i have reprojected the UTM image and got the image as ...
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UTM convertor from one zone to next zone
I want to convert the utm cordinate systenm WGS 84 "E,N " from 38 N ZONE to 39 N or to 37 N.
pleas send me the formula and programs that I can do it.
thank you
