A geologist has given me a bunch of points to plot on a map I'm doing in WGS84. Her points are in NAD83, and she says they're in "zone 8." Here is one of the points.
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She says the points in question are in the Richardson Mountains, up in northwest Canada, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting them to plot to that location when I use http://tool-online.com/en/coordinate-converter.php to convert to WGS84 -- they keep ending up on the east coast of Canada.
I then tried QGIS, only to realize that the software only appears to include zones like "8N" by default, with no default UTM NAD83 zone of just "8." I asked her via email whether her points were in zone 8N -- which seems to plot much closer to where the points are supposed to be -- and she said they were not.
Since she's doing me a favor just getting me this data, I don't want to bug her too much with back-and-forth emails unless it's absolutely necessary.
Can someone get these to plot correctly on either a Fusion Tables map or OSM map in QGIS, giving me step-by-step instructions on how you did it?
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from the example point and online calculator you posted, so I would triple-check the projections you're using in that online calculator. Using UTM Zone 8N (zone 8 in the northern hemisphere) in QGIS should put them in the correct location. – Erica Oct 4 '14 at 20:02