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Return UTM Zone

Source: R/geography.R
long2UTM.Rd

[Deprecated] long2UTM was deprecated in favor of convert_long_to_utm() to enforce a consistent function naming pattern across the package and to conform to the tidyverse style guide.

long2UTM() take a longitude coordinate and returns the corresponding UTM zone.

Usage

long2UTM(lon)

Arguments

lon

  • Decimal degree longitude value

Value

The function returns a numeric UTM zone (between 1 and 60).

Details

Input a longitude (decimal degree) coordinate and this simple function returns the number of the UTM zone where that point falls.