State Plane -> UTM projection

[Bruce Nielsen]

Kathy Burroughs wrote:
> 
> State Plane Problems
> 
> Thanks to all of you who responded to my intital problem with my
> state plane data being shifted from east to west.  (Ishmael, Tom,
> Malcolm and Burce).  You all had the same idea that the data may
> be in a different datum than the rest of my data.
> 
> This brings me to a new question.  When creating a state plance
> location it does not give you an option to pick a datum.  What is
> the default and how can you change it to the other datum. I have
> received some soil data from the field and it is now doing the same
> thing.  When ran through v.import it is okay north to south but is
> shifted way east.   I am stumped.  I usually work with UTM and this
> has me floored.   Please be very basic in your responses for this
> is new to me.  Thanks in advance.
> Kathy Burroughs
> GIS Spec.   NRCS-Georgia

Kathy,

I found some documentation on State Plane systems that says that Georgia
uses a Transverse Mercator projection, and that there are two zones in
the state.  Could it be that the people creating the data don't have the
right zone entered in their software?

I'm just guessing...
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