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Turbo87 / utm

Bidirectional UTM-WGS84 converter for python
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/utm
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Why are there two 'X' value in ZONE_LETTERS? #38

Closed apiszcz closed 6 years ago

apiszcz commented 6 years ago

I'm guessing this my understanding and intentional, thank you for the module.

ZONE_LETTERS = "CDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXX"

Turbo87 commented 6 years ago

because the "X" zone is larger than the others. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system#Latitude_bands_2