maybe this is not UTM (isn't UTM supposed to have 6, not 7, digits in
the E coordinate?). this is some weird coordinate system that the
soviets used, whatever it might be
-- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> karolis
>
> > >To get the really real border location, we gotta draw a line
> from the
> > >tp (54° 21' 47,8" N 22° 47' 31,2"E, according to your gps) to X -
> > >6028563; Y - 4616421 (point 1, in the LTRU border treaty).
> Now if
> > >somebody knew how to convert this to WGS84, that would be
> great!
>
> this is most puzzling
>
> to begin with
> i am surprised that nobody has come forward with the answer
> since i had imagined most gps receivers could make such a
> conversion routinely
> & also imagined many if not most members own gps receivers
> tho perhaps i am mistaken there
>
> & since i dont know how to make the conversion
> i wanted to try to figure it out
>
> so i began by determining you had to be in zone 34 for ltplru
> & then tried plugging your utm coords in at several sites such as
> http://www.agcrc.csiro.au//info/resources/proj.html
> etc
>
> & consistently got an impossible location
> around n29d35m x e69d15m
> or in other words somewhere in central pakistan
>
> so i wonder if you or anyone can explain where i went wrong
> & also why this question remains unanswered for so long