[PLUG] GoogleEarth Guru Here?

Paul Wroe gaussandgo at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 03:56:32 UTC 2011


UTM is a geographic coordinate system.  Nevada Zone 11S sounds like a state
plane projected coordinate system.  You may need to reproject your points
into UTM.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   I don't use Google Earth much, but I can find my way through menus and I
> even watched Google's tutorials without finding how to change the
> geographic
> location of a placemark.
>
>   A series of UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates was provided;
> they're in Nevada Zone 11S and I have the eastings and northings for each
> point. My Google search for instructions on how to enter these values
> (rather than an address or place name) revealed that from version 5.2 on
> they can be directly entered. So, I upgraded my 5.1 version to 6.0.2. All
> well and good, so far.
>
>   Using the "Add Placemark" toolbar feature (left most icon of a pushpin
> with a + above it), I specified the zone, easting, and northing. Gave it a
> name and clicked "OK." However, GE doesn't like the position and insists on
> changing it.
>
>   What I entered was (easting) 557018.00 m E, (northing) 4411377.00 m N.
> The
> values displayed on the map are 557356.98 m E and 4411268.25 m N. I cannot
> drag that icon to a new position and no matter how many times I re-enter
> the
> desired coordinates for it it refuses to go there and immediately changes
> the values to what it wants. The imagery data is 2006 and should be about
> 15
> m resolution. While the position might not be precise (although it should
> be
> since it's reported to 1 cm on the status line) it should not be so far
> off.
>
>   Any suggestions from those more conversant with GE than I will be
> appreciated.
>
> Rich
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-Paul



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