This subdirectory contains files used to 
convert Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates 
(m east of central meridian, m north of the equator)
to latitude and longitude, and vice versa.  Written
by a graduate student from Geodesy and Geomatics
Engineering, circa 1991.
Reference:
  Krakiwsky, E.J. "Conformal Map Projections in Geodesy", 
   UNB Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Lecture Notes
   37, Sept. 1973 (reprinted 1995).

The program is written for Unix command line execution.
Program convert
Usage : convert <latitude (dms)> <longitude (dms)>
                             OR
        convert <UTM Easting> <UTM Northing> <zone>
                             OR
        convert <latitude (dms)> <longitude (dms)> <zone>
The last version was added to force the zone to be <zone>
in case you want to compare two points that appear in different
zones based on their longitude (this actually happens in New
Brunswick with longitude 66 W. dividing zones 19 and 20).
e.g.

[bgn@homunculus unix]$ ./convert 45 27 18.023 -66 21 42.093
Latitude  : +45° 27' 18.023000"
Longitude : -66° 21' 42.093000"
UTM Easting  :  706291.719608m
UTM Northing : 5036666.506290m
Zone : 19
  or
U:\BGN\PROJECTS\CANMAP\MAPROJ>convert 
[bgn@homunculus unix]$ ./convert 706291.720 5036666.5063 19
Latitude  : +45° 27' 18.023000"
Longitude : -66° 21' 42.092982"
UTM Easting  :  706291.720000m
UTM Northing : 5036666.506300m
Zone : 19
  or
[bgn@homunculus unix]$ ./convert 45 30 00.0 -65 50 00.0 19
Latitude  : +45  30'  0.000000"
Longitude : -65  50'  0.000000"
UTM Easting  :  747406.867065m
UTM Northing : 5043157.820295m
Zone : 19

B.G. Nickerson
Jan. 12, 2006