<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As Greg and others point out, I appear to be using the UTM zone term inappropriately. My apologies.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I am after in my label, is the MGRS flavor that includes the latitude band, and agrees with the image shown in this link;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/_images/utm_zones.png" class="">https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/_images/utm_zones.png</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After you folks successfully educated me on this, I came up with the following;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">concat(name, ', ', mgrs_gzd($Y, $X), ' ', format_number(utm_east( $Y, $X), 0), ' ', format_number(utm_north( $Y, $X), 0))</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which gets me a label like this for the point I originally supplied;</div><div class="">Park, 13S 384,258 3,974,547</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is how my Garmin GPS displays coordinates of waypoints (sans the commas), and how someone would input the point into their gps, after I hand them a map I have created in QGIS. Now to eliminate the commas.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you all for your input,</div><div class="">es</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 6, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" class="">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Eric Sorensen <<a href="mailto:e.b.s@me.com" class="">e.b.s@me.com</a>> writes:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> <wpt lat="35.908381976187229" lon="-106.282681999728084"><br class=""> <ele>2262.188964999999826</ele><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The labels appear as expected, except one small problem. I know the points are in UTM zone 13S, yet the label shows zone 13N.<br class=""><br class="">Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That latitude is north, and in New Mexico. Why do you think it's zone<br class="">13S?<br class=""><br class=""><pause to read><br class=""><br class="">Beware of the confusion between grid zones from MGRS, not technically<br class="">part of UTM, and UTM north/south. See<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system#Notation" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system#Notation</a><br class=""><br class="">So it seems the UTM output uses S and N -- which is what I would expect<br class="">for straight UTM without a MGRS flavor.<br class=""><br class="">If you moved north, you could be in 13T, from 40-48 degrees, and not<br class="">have this issue, but then you'd have more snow :-)<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>