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See also: UTMCentralMeridian, UTMToLatLong, LatLongToUTM, UTM Zones, UTMZone 

GeoToUTMZone

Unit: SDL_geobasics
Class: none
Declaration: [1] procedure GeoToUTMZone (Lat,Long: double; var Zone: integer; var Band: char);
[2] function GeoToUTMZone (Lat,Long: double): string;

The method GeoToUTMZone calculates the UTM grid zone for a given longitude and latitude (parameters Lat and Long in degrees). The zone number (valid range: 1..60) is returned in the variable parameter Zone, the band designator (valid range: 'C'..'X') is returned in the variable parameter Band. The overloaded version [2] returns the zone and band code as a string (e.g. '40F' for zone 40 and band F).


Last Update: 2023-Feb-06