FW: Lat/long - UTM conversion

[Raino Lampinen]

On 15 Feb 01, at 10:43, Mary Barkworth wrote:

> I asked Ali Kelly, our Collections manager for some specific sites for
> UTM/latlon conversion because she has been checking some of our data
> and it seems that others, like me, really do not know where to look.
> Her response follows. If you have any questions, please ask her as I
> would prefer to keep the level of my ignorance somewhat concealed. The
> information does not really related to Mark's point, but should be
> useful for those interested converting (or providing the alternative
> data) for existing specimens.
>

I have used the free NIMAMUSE software package of the U.S.
National Imagery and Mapping Agency for these kind of
conversions. It is available (for several platforms) via
http://164.214.2.59/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/. The DTCC
(Datum Transformation and Coordinate Conversion) program of this
package can convert between geographic co-ordinates, UTM and
MGRS co-ordinates and several national systems (and you can
implement conversions for user systems). NIMA also had a DOS
program called MADTRAN, which might be still available somewhere.

You can find links to other conversion tools at, e.g.,
http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/cartogr.html#conversion.

Yours sincerely,

Raino Lampinen








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