What UTM zone is BC?

What UTM zone is BC?

5 UTM zones
The UTM zones and grid Sequentially- numbered 1 through 60, from west to east, the starting point for the zones (and the common border between Zone 1 and Zone 60) is the 180-degree meridian of longitude, or International Date Line. British Columbia occupies 5 UTM zones: 7 through 11.

How do I find my UTM location?

To find the UTM coordinate of a point, “read right up”. The numbers designating the vertical gridlines (at the bottom or the top of map) are the easting values. The numbers to the sides of the map labeling horizontal lines are the northing values.

What UTM zone is Canada in?

By international usage these zones have been numbered 1 to 60. Sixteen of the zones, bearing numbers 7 to 22, cover Canada (see Figure 2).

What are UTM lines on a map?

UTM is the acronym for Universal Transverse Mercator, a plane coordinate grid system named for the map projection on which it is based (Transverse Mercator). The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width.

What do UTM coordinates look like?

The map has grid lines spaced every kilometer or 1000 meters. The grid is labeled with UTM coordinate values. The vertical grid lines determine East-West position and the horizontal grid lines determine North-South position. The last 3 digits are the distance in meters measured from the western grid line.

What is the spacing of UTM grid lines on a 7.5 minute quadrangle map?

This grid is designed so that any point on the map can be designated by its latitude and longitude or by its grid coordinates, and a reference in one system can be converted into a ref- erence in another system. Such grids are usually identified by the name of the par- ticular projection for which they are designed.

What UTM zone is Fort Mcmurray?

The latitude of Fort McMurray, AB, Canada is 56.732014, and the longitude is -111.375961….Fort McMurray, AB, Canada Lat Long Coordinates Info.

Country	Canada
DMS Lat	56° 43′ 55.2504” N
DMS Long	111° 22′ 33.4596” W
UTM Easting	476,997.32
UTM Northing	6,287,618.72

Does UTM preserve area?

The UTM projection is designed to create a rectangular cartesian grid. This allows distances and angles to be computed easily, and minimizes distortion. The Mercator projection is conformal and preserves angles, but distortion increases away from the equator.

How do you use UTM on a map?

If UTM ticks are shown on a USGS topographic map, the zone is indicated in the credit legend in the lower left corner of the map collar. Within each zone, coordinates are measured as northings and eastings in meters. The northing values are measured from zero at the equator in a northerly direction.