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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Reprojecting vector layer in QGIS
I have a series of layers of lines (shapefiles) in My Project. The CRS of some are different and to merge them they all must have same CRS.
When I use Processing > Toolbox > Qgis_algorithims >...
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Coordinate system for accurately calculating areas of polygons that cross UTM Zones?
I have multiple polygons, all located offshore around the UK. I am trying to calculate the areas of these polygons in square kilometres, without splitting them by UTM zone.
Is it possible to do this ...
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Calculating areal distortion outside UTM zone?
One of my colleagues is working with data that is spread across two UTM zone. The majority of the data is in one zone, with a few outliers in another zone. He would like to know what the area ...
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Layer disappears when changing from CRS in degrees to CRS in meters in QGIS
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I have tens of thousands of small polygons for which I want to create buffer/doughnuts for, but I don’t get the units right. I want meters and not degrees, and changing to (what I think ...
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Computing UTM Zone from lat/long point
I am trying to convert a latitude/longitude point to UTM.
To define UTM projection, I need to calculate zone for the point.
I am trying to figure out the best way to do this.
One way to do this would ...
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Auto-select suitable UTM Zone based on Grid Intersection
I was wondering if the following approach a) would be considered valid and b) someone already did this in python.
I have a python script where users can choose an area of analysis (anywhere on the ...
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Meridian convergence. True north, magnetic north and grid north
I'm having difficulty wrapping my mind around meridian convergence, the horizontal angular distance between true north and grid north.
Say I want to determine if a feature lies to the east or west ...
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Formula for calculating short distances in UTM?
I'm fairly new at calculating distances with precision, but I wanted to know what is the best formula for calculating short distances in UTM coordinates.
The distances that I'am calculating are all ...
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Choosing UTM zone to use for large country?
I want to reproject OpenStreetMap roads data from the current projection (WGS 84) to UTM, since I read in another GIS SE Q&A(Getting $length in meters in QGIS?) that WGS 84 cannot be used to ...
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Generating shapefile containing UTM grid (graticule)?
I'm looking for a shapefile containing an 1000m or 2000m UTM grid ("graticule"). All I was about to find on the web is a 10000m UTM grid (here: http://en.giswiki.net/wiki/UTM) and I am aware that a ...
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Source for UTM Zone File
I'm looking for a complete, freely available file showing UTM Grid zones. Preferably not a simplified version, but one that shows the full grid zones and all 'exceptions' (e.g. in Northern Europe) - ...
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Batch convert lat longs to UTM?
I've got a .csv file that contains a long list of latitude and longitude points. Is there an efficient way to batch convert the list into a projected UTM coordinate system?
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Convert UTM zone into EPSG code
I have the UTM code 36S and want to convert it to EPSG.
Somebody told me that if the UTM code contains 'S', then the first three digits of the EPSG code are 327, and if the UTM code is 'N' then use ...
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Converting MGRS to Lat/Lon or UTM
How can I convert Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) to lat/lon or UTM?
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Determine the UTM zone/hemisphere in a particular datum
I'm using GDAL to convert coordinates from one system (geographic or projected) to another.
Assume I want to convert geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the WGS84 datum, to UTM ...
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Problem reprojecting UTM zones
I am new in programming with maps and coordinates, I am making a software on python where I load a raster (in UTM 18S that extent up to 19S, south orientation ) and a Landsat8 (orientation north), if ...
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Difference of Assign projection, Reproject Layer, and Define layer projection in QGIS?
I have a point layer and a polygon layer that are all in UTM51N projection but do not align. Just want to know when should I use Assign, Reproject, or Define.
Experimented with a polygon in EPSG:4326 ...
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Looping Projection in ArcGIS ModelBuilder?
I've got a global DEM raster dataset in WGS84 and need to project this to all WGS84 UTM Zones. So after that I should have 120 raster, one in each Zone.
Is there a possibility to automate this ...
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How to display distance in meters (km) and not in Decimal Degrees in QGIS 2.4?
I am a GIS beginner, and I have a question about how to get the distance between two points in meters instead of decimal degree.
In QGIS 2.4 I have a project with two point layers (in WGS84). From ...
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Measuring distances when crossing UTM zones?
I like to calculate distance between two UTM coordinates which are in different zones. How I can do this?
I found that we can map these coordinates in to a new projection for solving the problem. ...
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Which UTM zone 32N with prefix should I use in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)?
I would like to store and use GIS-Data in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany). The coordinate System should be UTM 32N with 32 as prefix (false easting = 32,500,000; not 500,000).
I looked at EPSG 4647 [...
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Searching for c# code to convert from UTM to WGS1984 (and back)
I'm looking for code in c# that converts coordinates from UTM to WGS1984 (and preferably backwards as well). I need to convert coordinates from only one zone (36N).
I've found this and this, but they ...
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How can I make the UTMs of different datasets uniform?
I have wind datasets for every U.S. state and want to merge them. I found out that these datasets use different UTMs. So I want to make the UTMs uniform. How can I do that? This can not simply be done ...
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Calculating UTM Zones using ArcGIS Pro?
The Calculate UTM Zone tool is listed amongst the Tools that are not available in ArcGIS Pro at version 1.4.
A workaround when needing UTM zones to be calculated would be to use the Calculate UTM Zone ...
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Convert Lat/Long to UTM specifying which zone to use (C++)
I need to convert Latitude/Longitude coordinates into UTM, in C++, specifying which zone to use.
I am working with locations that fall in two zones, and would like to project them all into one zone - ...
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Convert Lat/Long to UTM
I want to convert Lat/Long to UTM. When I search on net I am getting completely different formulas.
e.g. Lat/Long, 21.0909,79.067635
How to convert it to UTM?
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How to convert from EPSG:4326 to WGS84/UTM 32U?
I am unable to convert from the project's coordinate system to a different one using QGis 1.8.0.
I have a .shp file with a certain coordinate system information (WGS84 EPSG:4326 according to qgis). I ...
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R: Return the UTM zone that a WGS84 point belongs to
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.
http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/converter.aspx
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Converting large data with lat and long into X and Y?
I have 9888562 records in dataframe and I would like to convert my lat, long to UTM x,y. according to my code, I have used pyproj package but because my data are too much it takes a long time and ...
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PostGis: Geometry from UTM text
I have plain data in a postgresql table which looks like this:
╔════╦═══════╦═════════════╦══════════════╦══════════╦═════════════════╗
║ id ║ index ║ easting ║ northing ║ utm_zone ║ ...
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Using the Advanced Digitizing Panel in QGIS to input distance into UTM layer
I am trying to input (survey) line distance accurately using the Advanced Digitizing Panel. I am working in a layer with a UTM CRS and entering distance based on grid measurements. Unfortunately it ...
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Transforming UTM layer to WGS using QGIS?
I am trying transform a UTM layer to a WGS.
I have already:
Saved it as a new layer changing the SRC
Tried the tool "define current projection"
I am using QGIS 2.14 and the original layers are in ...
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Using project / layer CRS in QGIS?
I'm using QGIS 3.4.1, and I'm trying to print 61km x 61km area map of somewhere South Korea. Then I need to send this map with west / east latitude and north / south longitude info to other person, ...
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How to convert WGS84 to UTM when the study area covers two zones: UTM 51N and 52N
I want to use ArcMap to convert the WGS84 to UTM. But the study area covers two zones: UTM 51N and 52N. Which zone should I choose to output the result?
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Changing Dataframe Projection of .MXD to UTM Zone matching each polygon in ArcPy cursor?
I have a polygon shapefile.
I used ArcPy scripts to:
add a new field to the shapefile
use Calculate UTM Zones on each polygon.
It spits out UTM projection information into the field I've added.
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Transform from WGS84 to EPSG 3785 (google maps)
I am a Java Developer and I was given this coordinates from a database
verbat_sistema_coordenadas verbatim_SRS datum verbat_longitud verbat_latitud
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Changing projection on each page of data driven pages [closed]
I am working with data driven pages and a raster image of the world. I have a separate polygon shapefile of all of the UTM zones (with a polygon for zones 1-60, north and south, for a total of 120 ...
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Convert decimal degrees to meters QGIS
I am working in QGIS 3.4.8-Madeira on MacOS 10.14. I simply want to create a buffer on a point shapefile, but the layer is not being read in UTM but in degrees. I understand this is a common question ...
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Convert geographic coordinates to UTM zone 29N with Javascript
I have an issue converting lat longs to UTM with the ArcGIS javscript API.
Lets say that I have a map, based on the UTM zone 29N, also known as WKID 32629.
I have a known set of coordinates from a ...
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Converting Latitude and Longitude to multiple UTM zones
I have a data set of 3000 plots with coordinates in Lat/Long. It spans 13 UTM zones. I want to break it up into chunks corresponding with the 13 UTM zones, and convert the coordinates in each chunk to ...
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How to find bounding coordinates (lat/long) for UTM zones?
I want to error check incoming lat/lng points by checking if the point resides within the given UTM zone. (This would work for the data im using because sometimes there is a missing sign or lat/lng is ...
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Error reprojecting Landsat with rasterio
I am trying to reproject on python 2.7 a Landsat8 image from UTM 19N to UTM 18S using rasterio, reading the docs I found and example on the documentation and just change the input, output file and ...
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Getting zone from UTM in order to convert to latlong
I am trying to convert UTM to a latlong point. To get that done I need to know the zone where the UTM coordinates are. how can I find the zone from UTM?. the place coordinates that I work on lay on ...
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QGIS Change Grid labels and scale
I create a map in QGIS, in which I added Grids with labels and Scale.
So in the map the scale is not equal to interline grids.
I know it is related to projection system and location. but how do I fix ...
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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(...
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How to convert UTM coordinates into Decimal Degree coordinates?
I work on QGis 2.0.1 - Dufour on Macintosh OS X Mavericks.
I have UTM coordinates (XXXX and YYYYY) in a table (with one column of X and an other one of Y). I need this coordinates in Decimal Degree. ...
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Importing UTM coords into QGIS: Handle UTM Zone
I have a csv list of points with their reference in UTM (X,Y) format:
33411590,4225441;5657743,8981463;
As you can see, the first two digits of the X column are the zone number. When importing these ...
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Buffer in QGIS/R is 650-670 m wide instead of 500 m
I am trying to make a 500 m buffer for my polyline layer. Unexpectedly, I receive buffer varying from 650 to 670 m, depending on location. As many resources recommend to use UTM before making a buffer,...
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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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How to calculate the UTM-Latitude-band?
I have to convert a coordinate from UTM to MGRS. I think I have the most of it covered, but I have some difficulties to calculate the correct Latitude-band. How can I decide which band the coordinate ...
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