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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Plot coordinates in ArcGIS 9.3 don't make sense
I have a layer of plot features in ArcGIS 9.3 that I want the UTM coordinates for. So I used the Feature to Point tool and then added XY coordinates to each point. I then viewed the Attribute table ...
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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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Converting UTM55 to WGS84 in ArcMap? [closed]
I've got a raster in UTM55 over Australia and I would like to convert it to WGS84. Any idea how to do it ?
The problem starts when ArcMap recognize it as 'Geo-Reference' only and not as UTM55, so I ...
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Converting entire map to UTM 18 if only interested in part that is in UTM 18?
I am using some polygons and rasters whose initial extents cover all of Canada or all of North America. I am interested in a small area in Ontario that is in UTM zone 18. I would like to use the UTM ...
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Indoor map with relative coordinates
I am trying to create an indoor map with relative coordinates where the bottom left hand corner of the map is (0, 0), and the CRS is UTM, so the distance between coordinates is in meters.
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Converting UTM to Lat Long inside a Game Engine(Untiy 3d)
This is my first post on Stack Exchange.
I have exhausted my research through the game engine forums, so I am trying this forum since you guys seem to be the experts.
I have an external device that ...
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projection conversion from local to UTM
I have some images at a local coordinate system with the following specifications:
TIFF header file: -gdalinfo im.tif
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["Eastern Ridge Project Grid ...
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Turning part UTM, part degree coordinate into location on Google Maps?
I'm really new at this and not actually sure what kind of coordinate this is but I need to know where this coordinate leads to.
The cöordinates are part of a province wide "fox hunt" in gelderland, ...
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Convert from EPSG:4326 to UTM in PostGIS
I would like to convert from EPSG:4326 to UTM (30N/EPSG:32630 or 29N/EPSG:32629) in PostGIS. I do the following query but I get wrong results:
SELECT ST_AsText(ST_Transform(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(36....
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Are ArcGIS' UTM zone designations simplified?
I was recently given a document showing the UTM zones as they appear over the whole Earth. Each zone is 6 degrees longitude by 8 degrees latitude. A numbering system proceeds from 1 to 60 from -180 ...
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TIF not showing UTM coordinates in world file
I have a lot of tif files (ortho imagery that came with Lidar data). Each tile has a .tif and .tfw but the world files (.tfw) have line 5 and 6 as numbers that aren't what I would expect as I was ...
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Displaying data from two UTM zones on one map?
With at least some USGS quad maps, maps that overlap into adjacent UTM zones continue to use the same false easting (rather than start at zero in the middle of the map).
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Adjusting UTM and geographic coordinate data
I have a dataset with several points in space within a given area. UTM coordinates (easting, northing in m) or geographic coordinates were recorded for a single point in the vicinity of these points. ...
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How do I go from the WKT results of Calculate UTM Zone (Cartography) to a spatial reference object?
Calculate UTM Zone (Cartography) assigns a UTM zone to each feature within a feature class as a field value. The value returned is a 'UTM spatial reference string', which is a long string that looks ...
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Converting Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) to UTM
I have two numpy meshgrids (X, Y both 2D) in Lambert Conformal conic with the following information:
I'd like to directly (or indirectly if not possible) project them to UTM. I have both pyproj and ...
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ATS77 MTM 5 to NAD83 CSRS UTM 20N Coordinate Converter?
I've been looking for a simple way to check the accuracy of my transformation using a set of coordinates for a single point but have been unable to find an online tool or piece of desktop software ...
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Conversion of 3 degree UTM zone Easting Northing to WGS-84
In Nepal we use 3 degrees width zone UTM with 3 central meridians 81 E, 84 E and 87 E and datum: Everest-1830. I am trying to convert the Everest-projected coordinates to WGS-84's Latitude and ...
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Calculating the distance between a set of UTM coordinates [duplicate]
I would like to calculate the distance between several GPS points, these data are projected into UTM Zone 30.
I am using Postgresql 9.3 but I am happy to see results with any software or website such ...
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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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50 m precision in MGRS
My requirement is to plot 50m*50m blocks on map and I was going through MGRS(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system)
It says Truncate, don't round
Is it possible to achieve 50m ...
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Reproject GEOTIFF tiles from UTM to Plate Caree
I need to reproject several GEOTIFF tiles(each having different height/width) in six different UTM zones from UTM to Plate Carree.
Output of gdalinfo of two sample tiles is enclosed. As is clearly ...
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How to modify or create a wider UTM zone?
am working on a project to do country-wide mapping using projected coordinate system such UTM. However, the country (Zambia) is covered by three UTM zones, namely zone 34,35 and 36.I have read ...
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Using Redfearn's formula to convert between WGS84 and UTM?
I have GPS data at 1 point per second for several weeks in WGS84 latitude/longitude form. It was collected using a UBLOX GPS in 2015 in Australia (Zone 55s)
Would it be correct to use Redfearn's ...
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Difference between WGS_1984_UTM_33N and GCS_WGS_84
What is the difference between:
a map that has a projected coordinate system of WGS_1984_UTM_33N, a
geographic coordinate system of GCS_WGS_1984, and a datum of
D_WGS_1984
a map that has no projected ...
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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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How to change GK-coordinates to UTM with the field calculator in QGIS?
i have a qgis project in ETRS89 (UTM) with some vectorshapes. i already transformes them from GK into UTM. but now the attribute table still show me the GK-coordinates. HOW can i change it? with the ...
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How to calculate the shortest path to pass on 7.000 UTM points?
Anyone can give me an advice how to calculate the shortest path with a lot of UTM points?
In total I have 7000 points, but it can be grouping 100 or 500.
I have knowledges about Java and Python for ...
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Erroneous location when converting from a GCS_WGS_1984 to UTM
I have a shapefile map of Belgium divided by cantons that I want to re-project in order to have units in meters and to be able to calculate distances. I know how to do it with ArcGIS Projection tool, ...
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Error while adding map layer into QGIS?
I am working on a project on QGIS. I have 50 geographical points. I would like to put on the map.
The reference system is the UTM Zone 36S. I have successfully imported the coordinates but after I ...
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convert points to same utm zone
I have lat/long and when I convert to UTM, my points are in zones 35 and 36.
is it possible to "transform" or "project" (I am not sure which word is used to do this operation) the UTM coordinates from ...
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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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Export DXF Issue in QGIS?
I got the shapefiles in QGIS and transformed them to UTM NAD83 from WGS84, then tried to create a DXF of it so I could use it as an overlay in fieldgenius software for a topographic survey we're ...
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Convert shapefile to LonLat (R)
Just a small disclaimer: I don't have any background in cartography, hence I might have missed the answer to my question in search just because I didn't even know the keywords to look for.
So, I am ...
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Combining UTM zones into one solid map
I have an area, example 4000m x 4000m. So, 4x4km. The origin can be placed anywhere, maybe in center, maybe on the top-left, nevermind.
Now, I want to fill this area with some stuff from OSM. I read ...
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How to resample a DEM from GCS to UTM with respect to reprojection bounds parameter?
When reprojecting a DEM (e.g., SRTM-derived 1-arc DEM) using PCI Geomatica for example, to constrain pixel size and maintain a square pixel you can either change the image extent or the number of ...
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Angular distance between Grid and True North given Lat/Long
As part of a project that uses UTM coordinates I am trying to find a formula to compute the angle (with sign) between the grid north and the true north. I understand this is called meridian ...
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How to match UTM squares between Excel and Shapefile?
I have an excel file with locations displayed in UTM 10kmx10km squares. I also have a shapefile with those same UTM squares and their coordinates, however I cannot seem to figure how to project the ...
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UTM Coordinate Mapping Across Zones
I am building an application that requires me to plot UTM coordinates on a chart using CSV data. I am given two UTM coordinates for each record, although I would like the application to handle zone ...
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Expand zone 33X
I have coordinates in DDD MM.MMM
Lat N80 45.00
Long E028 55.00
I want to convert these to UTM. Using a web converter i get
35X E534389 N8965867
So far so good. But I have seen these coordinates ...
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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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Kernel density estimation across multiple UTM zones [closed]
I'm trying to compare the spatial distribution between two groups of fishing locations (for each of several different years) in the Bering Sea (lat's ~53 to 65N, long's ~ -178 to -158W. My preliminary ...
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Converting MGRS Coordiantes To DD or UTM gives ERROR 999999?
I am trying to convert MGRS coordinates to something that I can add into ArcGIS 10.2
I have a DBF file with MGRS coordinates that look like this: 11UNG37756325
They are in a text field and I am ...
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Transforming coordinates between wgs84 and UTM ED50 31N
I must tranform a point cloud from wgs84 (geographic) to UTM (projected) ED50 for zone 31North.
I have several free webs who offer me this service, and the answer is slightly different on every one ...
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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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Mercator vs. Web Mercator for Large Scale Topographic Maps
I have 8 terabytes of imagery that is in either lon/lat or UTM projection that I will be using for the basis of large scale topographic maps.
I have been studying the differences between Mercator and ...
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Which EPSG for UTM with 8 digits in QGIS
I have a UTM datasets with 8 digits, so the first digits are 32 (for UTM Zone 32N), but which EPSG should I use to get the data at the right spot in QGIS in a 6 digits system.
If I want to transfer ...
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How to work with UTM and multiple zones
I'm totally a newbie with geo tools. I'm using Sharpmap as I'm working with C#.
I have a map where I can put an item on a UTM Location with E,N Zone and number. So the item appears on the desired ...
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Difference between ETRS89 / ETRS-TM32 and ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N
In QGIS I can choose among other things between "ETRS89 / ETRS-TM32" and "ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N". In my test project both projections displayed the layers at the very same place. So, where is the ...
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Geographic -> UTM Raster Rectification [closed]
I'm trying to use an image overlay in KML / Google Earth as the basis for adding extra info and returning this to Google Earth.
In my utility app I can specify a rectangle to give me the north-south-...
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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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