R: Return the UTM zone that a WGS84 point belongs to

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I'm looking for an R function that might work similarly to this website that will tell you what UTM zone your WGS84 point belongs to.

@AndreJ this is even better than what I was asking for my particular problem. — cylondude, Commented Sep 2, 2016 at 16:04

Mike T · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01 23:42:25Z

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Each UTM zone is 6 degrees wide, so you can get the zone number by looking at the longitude:

floor((longitude + 180) / 6) + 1

This assumes that you have longitude within [-180.0, 180.0).

answered Sep 1, 2016 at 23:42

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