I have been following this thread from here in Canada, and have been wondering
if anyone at all was usung UTM in Australia. I never encountered it while I
was there, and it hasn't come up on birding-aus before, (at least not that I
saw). It's in fairly common use in North America, especially for atlassing.
Gary
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, Bob Green <> wrote:
From: Bob Green <>
Subject: RE: Decimal Vs Sexagesimal Notation
To: "Birding Aus" <>
Received: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 5:30 PM
For many reasons I prefer not to use DMS or decimal degrees anyway.
The map books created by the respective fire services CFA (Vic) and CFS (SA)
both work with Eastings and Northings, with the GPS set to UTM.
For field work, birdwatching or whatever it is so simple to find a location or
mark out a site, as a quick glance at the map and your GPS will tell you for
instance that you are 250m due East of your intended location. I haven't
figured out yet an easy way to determine how far away (0 degrees 22 min 15
seconds) is.
I realise you can enter destinations in your GPS but for ease of use in the
field I vote for UTM every time.
Bob Green
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