utm2lonlat {oce} | R Documentation |
Convert from UTM to longitude and latitude
utm2lonlat(easting, northing, zone=1, hemisphere="N", km=FALSE)
easting |
easting coordinate (in km or m, depending on value of
|
northing |
northing coordinate (in km or m, depending on value of
|
zone |
UTM zone |
hemisphere |
indication of hemisphere; |
km |
logical value indicating whether |
A list containing longitude
and latitude
.
Dan Kelley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system, downloaded May 31, 2014.
lonlat2utm
does the inverse operation. For general
projections and their inverses, use lonlat2map
and
map2lonlat
.
library(oce) ## Cape Split, in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy utm2lonlat(852863, 5029997, 19)