I'd like to find a service to convert lat/lon in WGS84 to an arbitrary coordinate system in metric that will be the most accurate for my bounding box. Does something like this exist?
For instance,
lat = {62.0, 61.0} , long = {-149.0, -150.0}
would perhaps bring up Alaska State Plane 4.
Spacedman has the right idea.
Your hypothetical website would need to ask you to choose which of the following attributes to optimize:
- Those that minimize distortion in shape are called conformal.
- Those that minimize distortion in distance are known as equidistant.
- Those that minimize distortion in area are known as equal-area.
- Those minimizing distortion in direction are called true-direction projections.
(from https://courses.washington.edu/gis250/lessons/projection/index.html)
I don't know of (and couldn't quickly) find any that walk you through the process.
Perhaps https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/ will help you pick a projection. Once you have that, then you can look up which coordinate systems exist for the area of interest using the desired projection.
