AGD to MGA conversion

[Beth White]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m wondering if any of you know of an on-line calculator for converting AGD to MGA grid coordinates (not latitude and longitude)?

Thanks,

Beth.

[Josh Symons]

Hi Beth,

If you are looking for something to convert one at a time i have found this to be a very useful tool:

http://scims.lpi.nsw.gov.au/transform.html

Thanks,

Josh

[Beth White]

Thank heaps!

J

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[John Pickard]

Hi Beth,

Ahhh, the problem of datums and coordinate systems. Life would be so much easier if the earth were flat (which I guess that it is according to the anti-vaccine and anti-fluoride freaks of northern NSW)

I've used various converters on government sites, but found them rather clunky. My current converter is a lovely little program written by an Aussie: Australian Datum Tool available from http://www.binaryearth.net/AusDatumTool/index.php

I just checked the price, and the full version is now $AUD5.99. An absolute bargain for what you get. I bought my copy early last year (for the pittance of $7) and it works a treat. Can handle batch conversions with no great dramas.

For international OzArchers, there's an international version but I've never had the need to use it.

Binary Earth has several other programs of potential use to OzArchers. (and no, I don't get a commission or spotter's fee. I'm just a happy user)

Cheers,

John

John Pickard

john.p...@bigpond.com

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[John Pickard]

Back again Beth,

Binary Earth also has a great FREE screen distance and angle measuring utility that I wish I'd had a few days ago when I was trying to get an exact direction of a track plotted from a GPS

http://www.binaryearth.net/Downloads/DownloadScreenMeasureTool.php

Dead easy to use, and far far better than any of the clunky things I paid to download.

Cheers, John

John Pickard

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[Anthony Dunk]

I appreciate the plug, thanks John. As an (amateur) rock art discoverer myself, I've developed a suite of apps for this kind of work.

Take a look at my software website, www.binaryearth.net, and you will see that I've also written mobile phone apps for Android and iPhone. In particular Handy GPS (for both devices) and World Coord Sys Tool (for Android only). The later will let you easily convert individual coordinates betwen AGD and MGA once you've selected the appropriate "From" and "To" coordinate systems. The Handy GPS app also supports both datums.

Anthony.

[John Pickard]

Hi Anthony,

Pleasure. It's a very nice program, and has saved me lots of work.

Altho I have an android phone, and altho I've been using computers since I started on the CSIRO main-frame in the early 1970s, I only use my phone for (gasp) phone calls. I don't send or accept texts, just delete them. I realise that this makes me a dinosaur, but ...

John


---- Anthony Dunk <anthon...@gmail.com> wrote:

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I appreciate the plug, thanks John. As an (amateur) rock art discoverer
myself, I've developed a suite of apps for this kind of work.

Take a look at my software website, www.binaryearth.net, and you will see
that I've also written mobile phone apps for Android and iPhone. In
particular Handy GPS (for both devices) and World Coord Sys Tool (for
Android only). The later will let you easily convert individual coordinates
betwen AGD and MGA once you've selected the appropriate "From" and "To"
coordinate systems. The Handy GPS app also supports both datums.

Anthony.

On Friday, November 22, 2013 3:54:17 PM UTC+11, John Pickard wrote:
>
> Hi Beth,
>
> Ahhh, the problem of datums and coordinate systems. Life would be so much
> easier if the earth were flat (which I guess that it is according to the
> anti-vaccine and anti-fluoride freaks of northern NSW)
>
> I've used various converters on government sites, but found them rather
> clunky. My current converter is a lovely little program written by an
> Aussie: Australian Datum Tool available from

> http://www.binaryearth.net/AusDatumTool/index.php<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.binaryearth.net%2FAusDatumTool%2Findex.php&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEnbLO-JAVOX8qQTtFJDyOjbAOCYw>

>
> I just checked the price, and the full version is now $AUD5.99. An
> absolute bargain for what you get. I bought my copy early last year (for
> the pittance of $7) and it works a treat. Can handle batch conversions with
> no great dramas.
>
> For international OzArchers, there's an international version but I've
> never had the need to use it.
>
> Binary Earth has several other programs of potential use to OzArchers.
> (and no, I don't get a commission or spotter's fee. I'm just a happy user)
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> John Pickard
>

> john.p...@bigpond.com <javascript:>

>
> ---- Beth White <bet...@southernphone.com.au <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> =============
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you know of an on-line calculator for converting
> AGD
> to MGA grid coordinates (not latitude and longitude)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beth.
>
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[Malcolm H]

Hello Beth (and all OzArch readers)

I think you might benefit from having a go with Quantum GIS (available at www.qgis.org).

This is a full-featured professional-level GIS application program, and because it's an open source project, it's completely free (that is, legally free of cost, and free of restrictions on what you can do with it). 

The program could solve your problem in seconds, and it is an excellent tool for managing archaeological data and making maps for publication. There is a lot of material on the Web to help you learn how to use it.

QGIS can load and correctly display practically any kind of spatial information, including GPS files, shapefiles from ESRI ArchView, KML files for viewing in GoogleEarth, MapInfo files, and georeferenced aerial imagery.

I've been using QGIS professionally as an archaeologist for some years now, and I am yet to encounter a problem in Geographic Information Science that it can't solve. It is way easier to learn than ArchGIS and way more versatile than MapInfo. And you can't go past the license fee (there isn't one).

Regards
Malcolm