[mapserver-users] GPS to GIS

[Benoît Andrieu]

Hi Peter,

What do you mean with 'GIS' coordinates ?

For me, GIS means Geographic Information System and is a very common term.
Looking at your 'GIS' coordinates I would say that your GIS coordinate 
system is a UTM 32 coordinate system.

And in your case, you could use cs2cs 
(http://proj.maptools.org/man_cs2cs.html) in order to make the translation.

cs2cs.exe +proj=latlong +datum=WGS84 +to +proj=utm +zone=32 +datum=WGS84 -r
input : 54.9808N 8.86707E
output : 491492.61       6092662.95 0.00

The results are not exactly accurate with yours but they are close enough to 
me (by what ? 600 meters ? ^^).

I hope it will help.

Regards,
Benoît Andrieu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Falk" <peter at nexus.dk>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:20 AM
Subject: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS


> Hi David,
>
> Yes I know i was a bit vague. What I need is a simple function, that can 
> turn a point in GPS - a lattitude and a logitude value - into a point in 
> GIS.
>
> I.e. I got these coordinate:
> GPS: N: 54.9809  E: 8.86707
>
> that applies to
>
> GIS: X: 491055.41 Y: 6092507.928
>
> What I need is the correlation between the two.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
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