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Converting from Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) to decimal degrees.

Michael Smith, 11 Aug 20922

We got a table of locality data for Louis Zachos sites in UTM format, some NAD27 and some NAD83.

I found a Python package that would do these conversions.  Using it, I wrote a simple program to read in a table with UTM coordinates, zones, and datums and expand it with latitude and longitude.  You can find the code here.  Python to convert UTM to GPS

Ed Bradford, 29 Jan 2018

We ran across a set of specimens that used UTM to describe their location. We used the process below to convert them.

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