{"id":28,"date":"2007-09-15T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2007\/09\/15\/geo-or-utm\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:23:17","slug":"geo-or-utm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2007\/09\/15\/geo-or-utm\/","title":{"rendered":"GEO or UTM? Graticule or Grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re developing our latest map for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and we had a question. As a hiker and user of maps, do you prefer a detailed GEO graticule (you know&#8230;the degrees, minutes, seconds&#8230;) or do you prefer the military grid, UTM, which is in meters?<\/p>\n<p>We have both on most of our maps, but which would you use most?<\/p>\n<p>Of course the graticule would be most useful with a GPS unit in default configuration. If you choose a GEO graticule, do your prefer units in decimal minutes (e.g., 36\u00c2\u00b0 45.35&#8242;) or decimal degrees (e.g., 84.2546\u00c2\u00b0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re developing our latest map for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and we had a question. As a hiker and user of maps, do you prefer a detailed GEO graticule (you know&#8230;the degrees, minutes, seconds&#8230;) or do you prefer the military grid, UTM, which is in meters? We have both on most of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}