Questions tagged [utm]
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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Negative Easting while converting long/lat to UTM zone
I have a dataset of some points in python which have longitude and latitude for each of them. Because they are located in different UTM zones, when I want to convert them to UTM, I will get some ...
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How do we get 0.9996 as scale factor in UTM projection. Want this info to perform grid to ground conversion
I am working on a Site Calibration project that performs grid to ground conversion with some additional calculations. It's almost ready but I am having issue with calculation the scale factor. I am ...
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Create shapefiles with GDAL and Android studio
Because in GDAL when creating shapefiles with spatial reference WGS84_UTM_zone_18S, I get a warning of,
The added layers have an extension that is not consistent with the associated spatial reference ...
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Calculate UTM grid convergence using UTM coordinates
What would be the simplest way to arrive at a value for UTM grid convergence for a point given in UTM coordinates?
All advice I can find requires that the point be given in latitude/longitude. For ...
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Georeferencing a geological map of the Yozgat-134 quadrangle
I need to georeference a Turkish geological map that has no apparent reference points. The description says it has a UTM projection, but no further specifications are provided. How can I figure out ...
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Shift after reprojection from EPSG:3035 to other EPSG CRS (25832 / 31467 / 4326)
I'm trying to reproject a raster layer (EPSG:3035) to EPSG:25832.
In QGIS I used gdalwarp with the following command:
gdalwarp -s_srs EPSG:3035 -t_srs EPSG:25832 -tr 30.0 30.0 -r near -of GTiff ...
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Finding the correct UTM zone for set of coordinate in R
I have a set of points (coordinates) which is in WGS84 UTM but I don't know the zone to convert it to Lat/Lng to be able to put it on the map !
I was wondering if there is a way of extracting the zone ...
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Compute distances between points in UTM 32 coordinates and world countries centroids in WGS 84 with R
I have a set of points for Italian cities in UTM 32 N (CRS=EPSG:32632) and I have computed the distances between them using R.
Now I would like to compute linear distances also between a subgroup of ...
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From UTM to long/lat [duplicate]
I have a set of points expressed in the UTM zone 32N EPGS:32632 WGS84 and I would like to obtain long/lat expressed in -90/90 180/-180 degree.
Is there a way to obtain it with Qgis?
For instance:
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Using different projections in insets with Matplotlib/Geopandas
In Matplotlib I can create inset plots with .inset_axes(). This works very well with GeoPandas, allowing me to do e.g.:
inset = ax.inset_axes([x, y, w, h])
df_main.plot(ax=ax, ...)
df_subset.plot(ax=...
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Incorrect WGS84 to UTM conversion in GeoPandas to_crs and estimate_utm_crs
Does anyone ever encounter this weird inconsistency in GeoPandas to_crs and estimate_utm_crs:
import utm
import numpy as np
import geopandas as gpd
from shapely.geometry import Point
for lon in range(...
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Interactive calculation of object area depending on its location in the UTM zone using QGIS
I want to interactively calculate the area of a geometric object and use different projections depending on its location.
Source data is stored in WGS 84.
The area should be calculated in the WGS 84 ...
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Publish UTM from geoserver using mssql geometry
I have my world lat, lon coordinates insert in an ms sql geometry column like this:
geometry::Point(56.120417, 10.159337, 0);
I have an ms sql store in geoserver and a layer that exposes these ...
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Difference between WGS84 datum and WGS84 UTM 15N [closed]
I have two digital elevation models. One’s datum is in WGS84, and the other datum is WGS84 UTM 15N. I am using both for geologic mapping.
What’s the difference between the two datum?
Is it okay for ...
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Extent incorrect after using affine and rasterio to write image
I'm using rasterio to write data to a TIFF image. The original data was extracted from a TIFF image, that was projected in UTM 17 North, or EPSG 32617. I'm writing the data to EPSG 4326, and am also ...
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Python script converts UTM to northern hemisphere fine, but I need southern hemisphere
I'll start off by saying that I do not know how to code, and I have been using this Python script to convert building models from lat-long into UTM for many years.
The problem is that in all of these ...
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GDAL: Reprojecting geotiff from LATLONG to UTM
I have a file in geotiff format, with coordinates in WGS84.
I would need to convert from WGS84 to UTM.
When I launch the code via GDAL:
gdalwarp -t_srs '+ proj = utm + zone = 37 + datum = WGS84 + ...
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How to convert long/lat LAZ to coordinate system?
I have a Canadian lidar LAZ file, and it is in long/lat based in UTM10, sourced from LidarBC (https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=d06b37979b0c4709b7fcf2a1ed458e03).
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Finding SRIDs of UTM quadrants or define other quadrants that are not at Equator
Trying to find the SRID of each official-updated ("SIRGAS 2000" or WGS84) UTM quadrant of Brazil.
I am supposing that Latitude bands can use precise local projections, so on different SRID ...
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True north/east in UTM rasters
I have rasters that are in UTM projection (of various zones, depending on the location of the raster) at 10-meter pixel spacing. The rasters are, on average, 29,000 by 21,000 pixels which covers a ...
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EPSG:3857 to UTM?
I am trying to convert coordinates from EPSG:3857 Spherical Mercator to UTM local projection. The problem is that for my use case I cannot use any web interface or library, I should implement the ...
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Transforming EPSG:4979 to given WKT (~EPSG:6654)
I am setting up a GIS to transform points defined in lon/lat/z (referenced to WGS84, or in EPSG:4979) to an input .laz/.las file coordinate system. I've handled reading the wkt from laz/las files with ...
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UTM32 vs. WGS84
I am conducting an GIS analysis for areas for Germany.
While the OSM map, which I really like to use (copyright issuses etc.) is in WGS-84, all the data from offical map services in Germany come in ...
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Converting UTM Dataset using QGIS
I have a dataset with coordinates in UTM. I want to covert these coordinates using QGIS to lat long. I've tried doing it multiple times now, and the end result converted coordinates are not coming out ...
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Convert Coordinate Notation warning, empty output
I have the following UTM coordinates:
ID
Easting
Northing
UTM
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10V 0614067
7080117
10V 614067 7080117
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10V 0614134
7080506
10V 614134 7080506
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10V 0614193
7080765
10V 614193 7080765
I have ...
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Convert rworldMap to UTM
I would like to use the worldMap from rworldMap, but need this in UTM projection rather than long/lat. I first clip the map to my area of interest. How do I then convert this to UTM projection? My ...
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Reprojecting a raster from long/lat to UTM take 2
This thread Reprojecting raster from lat/lon to UTM in R? was of no help to me.
I have the following raster which I first need to create in lat/long in order to crop it to rworldmap. However, I then ...
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Decoding an unconventional coordinate system
I've been trying to collect bus location data. However, the GPS coordinates the website gives me are very strange. For example,
'Lat': 3582409.5140834446,
'Long': -10725363.693190178,
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Knowledge Check - Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
I was hoping to sense check what I'm seeing as I don't understand!
What I'm trying to do
My ultimate objective is to create shapefiles to represent the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) to a ...
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Add UTM and decimal degree fields to a point file
I have a point layer with CRS = EPSG:3978-NAD83/Canada Atlas Lambert and projection Canada Lambert Conformal Conic.
I used the field calculator and $x, $y to add "coordinates" which I take ...
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Can't make sense of (UTM?) boundaries coordinates from Statistics Canada
I downloaded a GML file of cities boundaries from Statistics Canada, but I can't make sense of them. For example, when looking at the boundaries for a city north of Toronto (Markham), the first ...
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The WGS Coordinates (lat,long) of the shapefile (ETRS89 UTM 33 N) are swapped?
i am relative new to the whole gis world. To display some statistics in Leaflet on my website i choosed to use some district zones provided by the regional government (Berlin / Germany) as Shapefile (...
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Changing the naming of a coordinate system in QGIS
For compatibility reasons with a different software I need to change the naming of a CRS in QGIS (ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N). After georeferencing a file in QGIS I would like the CRS to show up in the ...
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6 digit UTM to DD [closed]
I've done some searching online but I can't find an answer to my question, hence posting here. I have a spreadsheet of UTM coordinates (I think they're UTM) and I need to convert them into DD.
All I ...
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Calculating point intersection from Azimuth and UTM coordinates
I have a control board point(CB) that I need to calculate the position of.
I took the azimuth and the elevation of that point relative of two other known points(of which are known Easting, Northing ...
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QGIS converting my coordinates erroneously
I have a set of data in CSV format where the first, second and third columns are Point #,Coord of X and Coord of Y respectively (in UTM Zone 51N). Then I added a delimited text layer in QGIS 3.16.5 ...
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Wrong UTM zone settings in GPS receiver
I recently made a survey with an rtk GPS in an area within the UTM zone 32 N. Alas, the instrument was set to work on zone 33 N. When I load the points on a map applying the zone 32 projection (EPSG ...
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Confusion on Northing and Easting values in UK
From what I understand about UTM Northing and Easting values..
In the Northern Hemisphere, Northing is the number of metres from the equator.
Easting is based on the Central Meridian (CM) of the zone ...
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Getting specific block from UTM CRS, not the zone
from pyproj import CRS, Proj
import utm
lat = 10.269558
lon = 25.234
coordsUtm = utm.from_latlon(lat,lon)
crs = CRS.from_dict({'proj': 'utm', 'zone': coordsUtm[2], 'south': False})
I want, ...
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Converting State Plane (Nevada) to UTM
I've received a database of drill hole locations in SPCS but I only use UTM.
How can I convert a CSV spreadsheet from State Plane Coordinate System, Nevada East NAD27 TO UTM?
Here's a video of the ...
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Creating final map that displays data in UTM projected coordinate system
How do I create a final map that displays the data in a UTM projected coordinate system in a QGIS project with 4 data layers all having a geographic coordinate system?
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Archaeology. Local coordinate system (total station) to UTM coordinate [closed]
I'll have to georeference (with a dgps) an archaeological site plan (2.7 km²) that's been done using local coordinate system (total station)
The actual GIS project in local coordinates contains a lot ...
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Finding central meridian of UTM zone
How do I find out (calculate somehow) the central meridian for a UTM zone for which I know the zone number?
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Detecting polygon shape with PostGIS
I've got a polygon table with a UTM 10x10 km grid in a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and I need to identify those cells that are not a regular square (i.e. changes in UTM numbers):
Following the ...
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Converting pointcloud data in UTM in txt to LAS
I have text file with point cloud data in UTM format, say
sample=[632535.222, 4858488.332, 150.555]
I am currently using laspy, the parsing from txt is ready, and I plan to generate a new las file ...
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Area calculation in PostGIS
I'm using PostgreSQL 14.1 with PostGIS 3.1.
I've got a UTM 10x10 km grid malla, set in EPSG 25830, that covers all Spanish territories:
I have run the following code (just to check that everything is ...
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Determining if a GeoTIFF's projection is in spherical or cartesian coordinates
I have received GeoTIFF that may be projected into a UTM or cartesian coordinate system or may be in a spherical (lat/lon) coordinate system.
Is there a reliable way to automatically determine which ...
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Creating fishnet across different UTM zones of USA
I am trying to create fishnet across the USA. In the end, I want to calculate summary statistics for the vegetation in each grid, as well as get the distance between the each cell's centroid and the ...
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Converting UTM to Lat Long with pythons utm
From another answer on this stackexchange I found the utm pypi package, which seems awesome.
I seem to however get a wrong result for:
utm.to_latlon(246000, 9860000, 37, 'S')
It is possible though ...
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How to convert Latitude Longitude to UTM - conflicting UTM Zone codes
Just as in this question, I download a sentinel tif file:
from pystac_client import Client
catalog = Client.open("https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v0")
mysearch = catalog.search(...
