<div dir="auto"><div>David and list<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 6, 2021, 10:50 David Strip <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@stripfamily.net">qgis-user@stripfamily.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2/6/2021 11:33 AM, chris hermansen wrote:
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<div dir="auto">Your lat long 35,-106 are far west in the
northern hemisphere. Therefore the UTM zone is 13N not 13S.</div>
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<div dir="auto">This is somewhere near Memphis Tennessee if I am
not wrong.</div>
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Actually, that's pretty close to me. It's in Los Alamos, NM. (I'm
about 75 miles WNW).<br>
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There is some confusion about the naming of UTM zones. According to
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system#UTM_zone" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>,
the latitude bands are not part of the UTM description, but rather
from the MGRS. Nonetheless, UTM grid references are sometimes given,
creating the ambiguity between 13S meaning latitude band S vs.
meaning a UTM coordinate south of the equator. In the case of the
coordinates given here, 13N means zone 13 north, and is not a
latitude band reference. <br>
</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The latitude band thing is different than the N or S convention, I believe.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">13N gives metres north of the equator.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">13S gives metres north of the south pole.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
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