Re: [Paddlewise] More Re: UTM

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:22:38 -0400
>Oh I forgot, USGS topo maps definitely show the hash marks for UTM.
>They are faint blue lines in the margins.  I don't recall if marine
>charts do and no use pulling one out as I cut off all marginal notes to
>reduce their size.

    I just checked one for Little Egg Harbor, cover published 1994 1:40,000
scale.  No UTM grid markers.  Has the NJ Plane Coordinate Grid at 10,000
foot intervals.  All scale references are in feet, miles and nm.  NO metric
scales at all.  There are two scales for lat/lon conversion which you'd
probably have to use dividers with....
    I also looked at the Magellan GPS Topo-Guide I have.  It has transparent
grids for 1:24k, 1:25K & 1:63K for the usual land-based topo sheets.
Nothing for 1:40K
    So I guess, after all the foofarraw, that UTM isn't the best choice for
seagoing kayakers.......



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