[GRASS-user] Managing UTM different zones

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Mon Feb 8 15:43:56 EST 2010


Pedro Roma wrote:

> I'm working with North Africa images and data in WGS84 system. But Now I'm
> going to work with UTM. The thing is, my area-of-interest is covered by 2/3
> UTM zones. My question is, how can I have them in the same location if they
> are in different UTM zones, so different coordinates systems?  Or is it
> possible?

Each location has a single projection, meaning a projection type along
with all of its its parameters, so you can't use multiple UTM zones in
a single location.

You must either use a separate location for each zone or re-project
the maps to a common projection.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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