[GRASS-user] Determining Datum From Projection Coordinates [SOLVED]

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:15:39AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Michael Perdue wrote:
> 
> > Hate to be a wet blanket, but both NAD27 and NAD83 UTM coordinates are
> > supposed to be in meters.
> 
> Michael,
> 
>    It's been quite a while but I recall data in NAD27 having units of feet.

This is true of State Plane Coordinate Systems in NAD27, but not UTM.

FWIW, it looks like since your lat/lons are specified at such low precision,
the NAD27/NAD83 datum shift might be irrelevant.

Of course, the *best* way to determine the datum would be to query the agency
that produced the data...

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