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1 hour ago, StefandD said:

Off-topic: I wonder if anybody ever uses this notation!

 

I've done so occasionally. All the good old topographic maps in Australia are plotted on a UTM grid so it's useful on more remote caches when I want to have a paper-and-compass backup or to just see where the cache is on a real map. Also, for caches in New South Wales National Parks, the application form requires the coordinates in UTM. Finally because it's a one-metre grid, it makes calculating distances between locations fairly easy as long as they're close enough to be able to ignore Earth's curvature.

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