Links and Resources

5. Coordinate Transformation Service

The OGC has developed and is offering a specification for an online transformation service > http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ct (WCTS): 'The OpenGIS® Coordinate Transformation Service Standard (CT) provides a standard way for software to specify and access coordinate transformation services for use on specified spatial data.'

In practice, this makes it possible to dynamically align and overlay geospatial data from sources in different reference systems.

Check out a sample implementation of WCTS from Italy >http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/mattm/en/conversione-coordinate-sincrono!

Get eg the lat long coordinates of Rome from the map in a section above, and convert into UTM (ED50 / UTM zona 33N).