[R] Map projections - converting latitude/longitude to eastings and northings

[stephen sefick]

Thank you for your reply.  Your suggestion for sending this to another
list is probably the right one.  I have just had so much wonderful
help on this one I thought I would try this one first.  I am very new
to GIS and have a couple of years of experience with R.  I will
probably join the sig-geo group to try and leverage my R knowledge
with GIS.  Thank you agian for your reply.

Stephen Sefick

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Roger Bivand<Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't grass-users, or maybe R-sig-geo be a more appropriate list? Given
> points in geographical coordinates, use project() or spTransform() in rgdal.
> The former will not do datum transformation, the latter will. NAD83 is a US
> datum specification based on WGS84, UTM is a projection but is useless
> without the zone number. If you can find the datum of your input data:
>
> in_crs <- CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=<whatever>")
> out_crs <- CRS("+proj=utm +zone=<#> +datum=NAD83 +ellps=WGS84")
> utm_bbox <- bbox(spTransform(SpatialPoints(ll_crds, proj4string=in_crs),
> out_crs)
>
> will get from one matrix of coordinates to the other. Note that for obvious
> reasons a rectangle on one side will only rarely be a rectangle on the
> other, so I've just taken a bounding box.
>
> Roger Bivand
>
>
> stephen sefick wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to set up a Grass project and need to set up the region so
>> that I can view the map.  I can look at a map and find the lat/lon,
>> but the map projection is in UTM NAD38 WGS84 and I need to set the
>> eastings and northings.  Is there a package that will help me
>> calculate this in R.
>> thanks
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Sefick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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