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I'm using an application that uses equations from USGS Bulletin 1532 (see source code - line 295: http://docs.ros.org/en/kinetic/api/robot_localization/html/api/navsat__conversions_8h_source.html#l00295). However, I need to use proj4 to do coordinates conversions. So I need to convert from one given projection to the projection used in the equations from USGS Bulletin 1532.

I'm using the C# package DotSpatial.Projections (which is a port for the popular proj4 C++ library to C#). To convert from one coordinate system to another, it receives a proj4 string, such as "+title=WGS 84 (long/lat) +lat_0=0 +lon_0=0 +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=degrees". However I don't know how to determine this string for the case of the USGS Bulletin 1532.

How would I define the proj4 string of the equations from USGS Bulletin 1532?

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IMO you can use the proj.4 tool directly.

Without re-substituting all the terms, your code seems to correspond with the approximation from Gerald Everden and John Snyder in the code in tmerc.cpp lines 76-116 (approx_e_fwd aka. ll2utm) and lines (approx_e_inv aka. utm2ll) lines 154-184.

I found your code base in one of my older Pascal repositories from 1998 which is a port by Kurt Spitzley Kurt.Spitzley@rz-online.de of the original C++ code written by Chuck Gantz chuck.gantz@globalstar.com also in 1998. A review for this code/equation base was written by John Manchuk in 2009 in the CCG Annual Report 11, 2009.

The code base is still present at: http://www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo/geotoutm/.

You could make some speed and code tests for this piece of software archeology ;-).

EDIT:

  1. The tool proj is a command line tool and has these forward and inverse termini.

So forward is from LL to XY and inverse is XY to LL.

  1. The UTM datum is called by:

Forward:

proj +datum=UTM +zone=32

Inverse:

invproj +datum=UTM +zone=32

This is a abbrevation for:

proj +proj=tmerc +ellps=WGS84 +k=0.9996 +lon_0=9 +lat_0=0 +x_0=500000

The next abstaction step is the usage of EPSG's. For further info's have a look at https://epsg.io/32632

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  • I could partially get what you said. I'm using the C# package DotSpatial.Projections (which is a port for the popular proj4 C++ library to C#). To convert from one coordinate system to another, it receives a proj4 string, such as "+title=WGS 84 (long/lat) +lat_0=0 +lon_0=0 +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=degrees". However I don't know how to determine this string for the case of the USGS Bulletin 1532. Do you have any suggestions for it.
    – Samuel
    Dec 24, 2021 at 16:20
  • @Samuel see EDIT:
    – huckfinn
    Dec 24, 2021 at 19:56

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