[Xastir] Re: [Xastir-Dev] Cartographers? UTM/UPS Questions

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>
> > UTM:
> > ----
> > There are two irregular zones in the area of Southern Norway (31V and
> > 32V), and four irregular zones above there (31X, 33X, 35X, 37X, with
> > 32X/34X/36X/38X being absent).
>
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://moveout.ifjf.uib.no/nav-processing/&e=747
>
> claims the central meridians run through the center of those zones.

I thought about trying to find documentation from that part of the
world, but didn't follow through.  Thanks for finding that!

I'll look around there a bit and see what else I can find.  I
haven't found anything that says definitively that the UTM grid has
changed, when, or why.

Until now I was going under the assumption that the MGRS grid used a
modified UTM grid, but everyone else used the 6-degree regularly
spaced zones.  It's starting to sound like the generic UTM grid has
been changed for everybody.

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