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From: Vic Fraenckel (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 20:27:55 EST
download GeoCalc from www.windreader.com/geodesy and be done with it.
HTH
Vic
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Reed" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: UTM to geod. lat/lon conversion
| Herbert Prinz wrote:
| "You might as well get nice round numbered reference points (in one
system)
| from one of the on line conversion utilities. "
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| Right. Good point. So the procedure would be to find two extreme corner
| points in UTM, hit one of those web calculators, convert *just* those two
points to
| lat/lon, and then for all points in between you linearly interpolate at
the
| level of accuracy required. Fast and easy.
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| In the event that you can't find a web calculator or you discover some
other
| coordinate grid on a map, it's almost always possible to find some points
with
| known lats and lons and work from there.
|
| Frank E. Reed
| [ ] Mystic, Connecticut
| [X] Chicago, Illinois
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