topic Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ? in Data Management Questions

My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:29:34 GMT

I just discovered thht my Location in the Identify dialog box had the wrong UTM. It says it is 13S but I am working on 13N because all of my data are suppose to be in NAD 1983 UTM Zone 13 N.

Why does it show up as 13S instead of 13N ???

How do I fix the problem ?

Thanks

Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

AbdullahAnter — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:34:31 GMT

Could you attach screenshot for the projection of data frame and another one for the feature class.

Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:56:24 GMT

Sure !

Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:16:37 GMT

You aren't in the southern hemisphere you are in utm zone 13S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system#/media/File:Utm-zones.jpg

Don't confuse S with S as in the first S is the utm zone grid designator and the generic S is a simplified variant for N or S

Clear???/

Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:31:10 GMT

So it is correct that it is as in the "Grid" shows 13 S ?

I see.

Re: My Identify's Location show wrong coordinates ?

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:43:56 GMT

check the map... that is the true utm system and it allows you to narrow your location down to one 6 degree x 8 degree block of longitude and latitude

You may consider this old school, but the 'current' division of splitting utm zones into the (N)orthern and (S)outhern hemisphere is 'relatively' new.