Earth Point now supports the State Plane coordinate system. The coordinate system was developed in the 1930's, before the advent of computers or GPS, and is used by mapping professionals in all 50 states. Each state is divided into one or more zones based upon Transverse Mercator, Lambert Conformal, or Oblique Mercator projections. These flat-plane projections allow measurements to be made using simple Cartesian coordinates, thus avoiding complex spherical or ellipsoidal calculations of distance, angle, and area.
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The ExcelToKml utility maps a list of State Plane coordinates onto Google Earth, where they can be viewed easily and shared without the need to load them into a larger mapping system. An example spreadsheet is available: StatePlaneExample.xls
The StatePlane page converts State Plane coordinates to Latitude/Longitude and back again. Other coordinate systems, such as UTM and MGRS, are also included. Individual coordinates can be mapped onto Google Earth.
The ConvertCoordinates page accepts State Plane coordinates for conversion to Latitude/Longitude, UTM, and MGRS.
Please help validate the results.
I have tested points in all 124 zones (plus three additional zones for Maine 2000). Please try a few yourself, compare the results to a known system, such as CORPSCON, and add a comment to let everyone know the result.
Also, please post any suggestions you might have about the state plane utilities.
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4 comments:
this looks like an awesome app. I tried to take some survey points on some plans for a new road. I was pretty sure they were state plane coordinates. However, no matter where i look all the conversions i get have to be about 1 degree and about .35 miles off. I can't figure out what i am doing wrong. I am in the texas south central plane 4204.
If you can send me a spreadsheet, I would be happy to look at it.
bill.clark@earthpoint.us
This software assumes WGS84 which is 3-4 feet off the NAD83 horizontal datum which I typically work with. When working with State Plane Coordinate data, it would be helpful if this conversion software would allow the user to specify the horizontal datum of the data they are trying to convert. I sometimes have to convert NAD27 data.
Thanks for the comment. I am working on support for more datums, including NAD83 and NAD27.
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