Converting Coordinate Systems

[Bowhuntrben]

I am trying to plot some of the kill sites of moose in Colorado, but I'm unsure how to convert the coordinate system into one that I can put in Google Earth. Just picking one at random, it gives:

Township: 10N
Range: 79W
Section: 9
1/4 Section: SE
Easting: 393153.06
Northing: 4523254

Any survey gurus on here know how to convert that into something like lat/long or something else that I can use in Google Earth?

 

[jrabq]

The last two numbers are the UTM format, but there is usually a Zone# in front of it that is also required. Pretty sure you can change the Google Earth units to UTM, enter those values, then go back to what you were using and it will do the conversion for you.

 

[marksjeep]

http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/converter.aspx

Almost all of Colorado is in UTM zone 13. Far western portion is zone 12.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

UTM zones are 6 degrees wide, the center of the zone has an X of 500,000m
The Y-value represents distance in meters north of the equator (in a Tranverse Mercator projection).

so Easting: 393153.06 is west of the center of the zone
Northing: 4,523,254 north of the equator
but you also need to know the zone...for example there are 10 UTM zones in Alaska,
each can have the same x,y coordinate.

UTM coordinates and lat/long are printed on the borders of USGS topo quads,
typically the UTM coordinates are every 1000 meters in blue (specified in the map legend).

http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/converter.aspx
is an excellent resource..but you need to specify the UTM zone as well as the x,y values.

You can figure out your UTM zone if you know your longitude...each zone is 6 degrees wide.
Zones start with zone1 at -180 to -174 degrees longitude, zone 2 -174 to -168 degrees longitude, etc.
Zone 6 (interior Alaska ) is -150 to -144 degrees longitude

--Skeeter

 

[Bowhuntrben]

Thanks guys! A lot of the other ones were put in with Zone 13. I didn't put 2 and 2 together to think the coordinates were UTM without the zone given. When I put them in with Zone 13, it makes sense where it shows up on the map....thanks again!