RE: [Paddlewise] UTM

It was YOU Clyde!! I thought you were a UTM expert!?  

I have privately e-mailed you with the .pdf file to print a grid on acetate
which will work with any 24,000 USGS chart. You do have to draw your own
grid on the topos connecting the blue ticks. Then it's just a question of
placing the template over the appropriate grid square, and plotting the last
significant digit and bingo!  I found I can easily be accurate to 10 meters,
both reading a position on the map from GPS UTM coordinates and creating a
way point from a position on the map.

cu

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
[mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net] On Behalf Of Sisler, Clyde
		Sent:	Thursday, April 08, 1999 9:04 AM
		To:	'Paddlewise'
		Subject:	[Paddlewise] UTM

		Spent an hour or so last night _at_
http://www.nps.gov/prwi/readutm.htm trying
		to make sense of this UTM stuff.

		My BBA charts are 1:94,000 but some of my others are
1:40,000.  No UTM grids
		on any of them.  The only grids I have are every 5 lat/lon
minutes.

		Tried to supplement the tutorial with some other reading and
checked out
		Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation by David Burch and Be
Expert With Map &
		Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom and neither has any reference to
UTM.  MapTech,
		my electronic charting software doesn't mention it either.
My spelling
		verifier does like UTM however????

		I think whomever that evil person was who mentioned UTM to
Bob Denton, also
		mentioned something about a grid template or something.  Am
I missing a
		piece of hardware somewhere or just a few brain cells?

		The examples end up with coordinates from 4-10 digits in
length, depending
		on desired accuracy.  That's some pretty big numbers and
sounds like it
		would take just as long or longer to come up with and enter
them into a GPS
		as lat/lon .  (I really haven't entered anything yet).

		What makes UTM better/easier or whatever than lat/lon or is
it just another
		technothingee?

		Clyde Sisler
		http://csisler.com


	
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