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>Date:         Fri, 20 May 1994 14:59:41 EDT
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>From: "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      UTM History
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>This message is from Ross Togashi.--------------Johnnie
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>      Thu, 19 May 94 15:50:30 HST
>      Ross Togashi <[log in to unmask]>
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>Greetings,
>I need information, preferably something that I can cite, which discusses the
>background history of the universal transverse mercator grid system (UTM).  I
>specifically need to know who devised the sytem and when.  Thank you for any
>leads you can provide.
>Aloha,
>Ross Togashi
>University of Hawaii at Manoa
>Hamilton Library Map Collection
>                                 mmmm...I wonder if Iowa has spam?
 
According to John Snyder in *Flattening the Earth* (U. Chicago Press, 1993,
ISBN 0-226-76746-9) p. 160:
 
"... was immodestly named the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid
and projection system by the U.S. Army Map Service in the late 1940's."
 
See also U.S. Dept. of the Army, 1973, "Universal Transverse Mercator
Grid", TM 5-241-8.
 
I can't find a USA ref circa 1940 although TM 5-241 may have an
earlier edition from that period.
 
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