Talk:Transverse Mercator projection

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Anybody can contribute an image of a world map in UTM? --Lev 19:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Metric systems and maps within the UTM zones

I am working on systems producing generalised maps (presence/absence and density maps) based on the metric system in UTM-zones. This is fine as long as your data is from within one UTM-zone. But when the data extends over more than one zone several problems occur:

• how should we have a continous square system
• how can we keep our precision good enough

The solution on my side is to leave the UTM-based squares and continye by using a system based on longitudes and latitudes. Since it today is quite easy to calculate the square areas of any lon/lat square system density calculations is not a problem.

I would like to have some discussions on this matter on the page describing UTM-sones. What are the shortcomings when it comes to making maps based on UTM-zones...

[edit] sample coordinates

please provide some sample coordinates and their latitude/longitude equivalent. Funkyj 06:57, 2005 July 31 (UTC)