In the National Register location data, everything is plotted with UTM coordinates (zone, easting, and northing). I want to use this location information in work I’m doing on PAB, which at the moment requires me to convert everything to latitude and longitude.
I could do this in ArcMap, and reproject the whole dataset. But I want to write an automated import script for NR data, so I had to find code I could use in ColdFusion separate from traditional GIS software.
Found paydirt in Chuck Taylor’s GIS toolbox. He has a javascript version of the conversion routines, so all I needed to do was migrate that to a ColdFusion component (CFC). Having freely received, I’ll freely give — here’s the CFC for converting UTM to latitude and longitude. No restrictions attached.