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How UTM Works

Published on 3 August 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

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Here’s a brief guide to the Universal Transverse Mercator system, which many of us know from mucking around with topographical maps. (At one point I could give my location using the UTM-derived military grid system.) [Geonewsfeed]

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