Some good analyses of the benefits of UTM were already posted, but I'll add that on land the easy transition from location to distance makes UTM particularly useful. With degrees of longitude, you've gotta translate distances in your head; with UTM, the numbers are the same kind of distances you use commonly (i.e. meters). After a while, you start seeing the distances on the map, if it is gridded for UTM, like Canadian maps are. I'm curious though. Someone posted an excellent description of why lat/long predominates in marine navigation. What about aviation? Didn't they essentially switch to UTM? -- Rob Gendreau Oakland, California gendreau_at_ccnet.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 11:33:11 PDT
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