Update coordinate WGS84 reprojection for UTM values

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Reporter: mdoering
Type: Improvement
Summary: Update coordinate WGS84 reprojection for UTM values
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2015-02-16 13:51:23.251
Updated: 2015-02-16 14:31:57.524
        
Description: Our coordinate processing and coord reprojection only ever considers latitude and longitude values. UTM values with large easing and northing integer values are not handled at all and will be rejected even if they come in as verbatim data cause they exceed 90/180 "degrees.

Allow verbatim coords to be UTM values and transform these into WGS84.

dwc:verbatimLatitude, dwc:verbatimLongitude, dwc:verbatimCoordinates, dwc:verbatimSRS  & dwc:verbatimCoordinateSystem together reflect any coordinate as kept by the publisher and it does not have to be a decmal lat/lon yet. UTM coordinates are very good and frequently found examples. dwc:verbatimCoordinateSystem should be “UTM” and verbatimSRS=UTM31 for the example below with coordinates given as verbatimLat/lon if you can or combined into a single dwc:verbatimCoordinates value (usually space or semicolon separated).


Examples (badly used fields though, should be verbatim):
http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1055088858/verbatim

Location
VERBATIMDECIMALLATITUDE 4820558
VERBATIMDECIMALLONGITUDE 348981
VERBATIMCOORDINATESYSTEM UTM31
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