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 <[email protected]>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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- -Paul _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
