Converting from Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) to decimal degrees.
Michael Smith, 11 Aug 20922
We got Louis Zachos provided us with a table of locality data for Louis Zachos (as a csv file) for his sites in UTM format, some NAD27 and some NAD83.
I found a Python package that would do these conversionssupports conversions between UTM and lat/long. Using it, I wrote a simple program to read in a table with UTM coordinates, zones, and datums and expand it with latitude and longitude. You can find the code here. Python to convert UTM to GPS
It expects the data in particular column order but would be trivially modified to handle a different arrangement of columns.
Ed Bradford, 29 Jan 2018
We ran across a set of specimens that used UTM to describe their location. We used the process below to convert them.
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