[Taxacom] Seeking Help with Co-ordinates

[Bob Mesibov]

My guess is that the 'L_N_' means 'Lambert Norte', and that these are UTM coordinates in the special Costa Rican system CRTM. The CRTM is from 1990 and (happily) is based on the WGS84 datum.

See http://www.investigadoresacg.org/sections/maps/metadata.html
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