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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Unfortunately, there are all too many government contractors, who because there are</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">still maps out there in NAD 27 use that as the datum and then give UTM coordinates. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">It can be done with many GPS units...</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Best, Mark Hall</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> grass-users@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, March 3, 2011 6:15:39 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [GRASS-user] Determining Datum From Projection Coordinates [SOLVED]<BR></FONT><BR>On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Michael Perdue wrote:<BR><BR>> Hate to be a wet blanket, but both NAD27 and NAD83 UTM coordinates are<BR>> supposed to be in meters.<BR><BR>Michael,<BR><BR> It's been quite a while but I recall data in NAD27 having units of feet.<BR>Regardless, ...<BR><BR> Since the data have both lat/lon and some version of UTM, I think the best<BR>approach is to use the lat/lon columns to import the data, then v.proj to<BR>the common Albers Equal Area
location.<BR><BR>Rich<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>grass-user mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org" ymailto="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</A><BR>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user<BR></DIV></div></body></html>