Hello, in my country we use the UTM coordinate format and it’s a little bit awkward to be converting UTM to Latitude/Longitude coordinates for each of my observations, so I want to know how I can change the coordinate format from my account configuration, or if you can add this feature in inaturalis…

Welcome to the Forum @denilsonoz ! I modified the title of your feature request so that it suggests a specific action for the developers to consider. You are welcome to modify it further if needed to clarify your request.

Thanks @jdmore , i hope the developers could add this option. :)

@denilsonoz can you please go through your workflow so we can get a sense of how this can best be implemented, if we do implement it?

Of course @tiwane , what I suggest is that the “Coordinate systems” function appears in the “Account settings”, such as the “Search location” function. I have prepared a couple of images to explain this feature. 1-This is how it will look if you add the “Coordinate System Option” (Call it what you …

A co-ordinate system like UTM is a ‘map projection’, i.e. a way of projecting the curved surface of the earth onto a flat plane whilst preserving one, but not all, important parameters like distance, area or navigation angles. It was very important when all we had were paper maps for locating and na…

I think it’s pretty clear that the request is for an account setting that would allow the user to choose a projected coordinate system to expect for all uploaded observations from that user. Uploaded coordinates would then be converted in the background to iNat coordinates (lat-long WGS1984, I pres…

The main reason is because UTM is the co-ordinate System that all the people in Honduras Use, i can understand that i can change my gps to lat/lon, but for other people like Geologists/biologists that start to use iNat they are familiary with the UTM system and maybe if they don’t find an easy way t…

my understanding is that one of the nice features of the UTM system in particular is that it uses meters as its northing and easting value units. so theoretically, even if you didn’t have a GPS device, you could still determine a UTM coordinate if you knew it was X meters E/W and Y meters N/S of a k…

Sounds to me that, for Honduras, UTM is just a pervasive national standard that everyone is accustomed to, and that may be hindering greater participation in iNaturalist there.

[image] jdmore: UTM is just a pervasive national standard is this actually true? some kinds of people like to use UTM over WGS 84 lat/long regardless of which country you’re in, right? it just depends on what you’re doing. even if we assume that geologists and biologists in Honduras use UTM e…

Provide for conversion from different coordinate formats

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tiwane April 1, 2021, 11:36pm 15

Apologies, I closed this without a comment. We don’t plan to support formats that are not lat/long in decimal degrees. Conversion will have to be done outside of iNat.

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