From what I have read this takes some complicated Math that I am not good at. So, I am asking here.
Does anyone have experience converting a MKMapPoint or CLLocationCoordinate2D to a UTM value? I found this resource (http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/usefuldata/UTMFormulas.HTM) but the math is overwhelming.
I recently wrote a class for this and posted a sample project on GitHub
The part you want is a file called UTMConverter.m. It has methods for converting from lat/long to UTM and vice-versa.
You could use one lib to do that, or analyze the code of one lib to understand the algorithm and do it yourself.
This is a c++ lib that does the job: http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/html/
http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/html/classGeographicLib_1_1UTMUPS.html
I found this website (http://home.hiwaay.net/~taylorc/toolbox/geography/geoutm.html). If you look at the source code, the whole conversion is done using JavaScript, you can have a look at it and try to convert to Obj-c.
MKMapViewZoom appears to have some class methods which can convert between flat-map (geometric) & curved-map (geographic) coordinates, though I haven't tested them out. Somebody give me a thumbs up if this actually works
//convert from WGS84 (geographic coordinates) to UTM (geometric coordinates)
+ (double)longitudeToPixelSpaceX(double)pixelX
+ (double)latitudeToPixelSpaceY(double)pixelY
//convert from UTM to WGS84
+ (double)pixelSpaceXToLongitude(double)longitude
+ (double)pixelSpaceYToLatitude(double)latitude
some documentation here
UPDATE:
This is maddening, but in order to get this class's source code to work accurately I basically had to extract the methods into my own domain essentially, then remove the parts of the code referencing MERCATOR_OFFSET & change MERCATOR_RADIUS to the meters value of the Earth's radius. I was kind of, ok, very surprised when I discovered this actually worked.
