Re: OT: Convert UTM to Longitude/Latitude?

Jim Thompson <thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:02:36 +0100, Terry Pinnell
><terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>John Woodgate <jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Pinnell
>>><terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in
>>><oius51ht59v7553sbne0pmqoebddksl8ri@xxxxxxx>) about 'OT: Convert UTM to
>>>Longitude/Latitude?', on Thu, 14 Apr 2005:
>>>>Having zoomed to an area around Competa and Canillas (a few miles NW of
>>>>Malaga in Andalucia, southern Spain), I want to read the long/lat
>>>>(DDD.dddd) of a few locations, for calibrating some GPS tracks I
>>>>recorded on a short walking holiday there last week. But the site shows
>>>>UTM co-ordinates, with which I'm unfamiliar.
>>>
>>>Google for UTM co-ordinates. I get 299 000 hits, and the first few look
>>>very promising.
>>
>>For explanations of what UTM is all about maybe. But none I found
>>there give me a practical, simple-to-use *conversion* program.
>>
>>The best I've found so far are a pair of DOS-based programs called
>>UTM2LL and LL2UTM, but they're awkward to use. I'm surprised I haven't
>>found a simple Windows utility yet, or an Excel spread***.
>
>http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/UsefulData/UTMFormulas.HTM
>
>includes an Excel spread***.
>
>Found by Googling on "convert UTM"... first result ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

Thanks - that will do very nicely. That was about the first hit I
found yesterday too <g>. But I assumed the LINK in "It would sure be
nice if someone wrote a SPREAD*** to do this," would explain what a
spread*** was, and skated on by!

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK


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