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Martin Desruisseaux resolved SIS-353.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> UTM should take in account Norway and Svalbard special cases
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>                 Key: SIS-353
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-353
>             Project: Spatial Information Systems
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Referencing
>    Affects Versions: 0.7
>            Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
>            Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
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> The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is not strictly divided in 6° width 
> zones. There is exceptions for Norway and Svalbard, for historical reasons 
> (UTM seems to have been designed by military around World War II).
> * Between 56°N and 64°N, zone 32 is widened to 9° (at the expense of zone 31) 
> to accommodate southwest Norway.
> * Between 72°N and 84°N, zones 33 and 35 are widened to 12° to accommodate 
> Svalbard. To compensate for these 12° wide zones, zones 31 and 37 are widened 
> to 9° and zones 32, 34, and 36 are eliminated.
> A nice image of UTM grid including the special cases is [available on 
> Wikimedia 
> common|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Utm-zones.jpg] 
> (see the 31X, 33X, 35X, 37X and 32V cells). This image also covers the UPS 
> cases (A, B, Y and Z cells, discussed below).
> Since the {{CommonCRS.UTM(double, double)}} method already expects latitude 
> and longitude arguments, it can easily be fixed without API change. However 
> it would be a slight change in its behavior. An alternative is to deprecate 
> the current {{UTM(double, double)}} method and create a new 
> {{universal(double, double)}} method instead. That {{universal}} method would 
> handle not only the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection with the 
> above-cited special cases, but also Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) 
> projections for latitudes north of 84°N or south of 80°S.



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