Hi Jan, hi Nicholas, Tunisia is at the Mediterranean sea, which is clearly in the northern hemisphere. 32N should be right. The S on the images is representing something else in the grid.
Nicholas did you simply change the code or did you do a transformation? Regards Thomas Jan Martin schrieb: > Hi Nicholas, > > your assumption regarding your source UTM Zone beeing UTM 32N is wrong. > > Your coordinates are from Tunisia. And Tunisia is UTM 32S, not UTM 32N: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/LA2-Africa-UTM-zones.png > > But as you can see here EPSG:32632 is the right result of a conversion > from UTM Zone 32S to EPSG: > http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/?search=32632&srtext=Search > <http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/?search=32632&srtext=Search> > > Question remains why your coordinates from Tunisia are displayed in > Algeria. > > I wonder if it is OK to just use EPSG:32632 as a projection for your > data, or if one would have to do math on the coordinates to. > After all your coordinates have been recorded in *WGS84, UTM 32S.* > > Jan > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Nicholas Efremov-Kendall > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I believe this is more of a gis question, than for OpenLayers, but > the problem manifests itself in openlayers and I'm having some > trouble diagnosing it. Jan provided me with some very helpful > assistance, which led me to the conclusion that my projection was > wrong. I'm trying to display gps point originally recorded in UTM > 32N. I had mistakenly believed this was EPSG 22332, but 36232 is > actually what I was going for. My problem is this: I have the > points overlaid on a wms server (thanks to Jan) but they're in the > wrong spot. However, when I change the EPSG code, the points don't > move. Does anyone have a suggestion for why they don't move? and > or for how to crack this nut. > best, > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- *Thomas Maschler* AFC International ** Programme d'appui au PSFE (ProPSFE) Expert Forestier/ SIG/ Télédétection www.cameroun-foret.com Coopération Technique Allemande/German Technical Cooperation B.P. 7814 Yaoundé Cameroun/ Cameroon T : + 237 22 21 94 57/ 22 21 06 51 M : +237 74 44 01 60 F : +237 22 21 26 89 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
