How to plot a map using GPS coordinates-mainly show the survey line!

Hello,

anyboday knows how to plot a map by using GPS coordinates? The coordiates are as follows:

Northing           Easting      Elevation
50.86927826  -114.2945278  1238.054
50.86926401  -114.2943198  1238.55
50.86909056  -114.2943252  1238.217
50.86920399  -114.2945011  1238.539
50.86919956  -114.2944337  1238.363
50.86915683  -114.2944277  1237.901
50.86915326  -114.2944266  1237.703
50.86915194  -114.2944987  1238.082
50.86908634  -114.2946077  1237.788
50.86917702  -114.2944551  1237.308
50.86991599  -114.2966594  1236.28
50.87010703  -114.2951651  1237.962
50.87010096  -114.2945458  1239.358
50.86965081  -114.2944982  1239.202
50.86920061  -114.29444  1237.085
50.86875305  -114.2943896  1236.397
50.86830406  -114.294338  1235.974
50.86786106  -114.2942754  1235.365
50.86742126  -114.2942082  1234.482
50.86692934  -114.2941147  1235.754
50.86697136  -114.2941233  1235.651

If anyboday knows how to do it, please let me know!

Thanks in advance.

Lei

[Jan]

If you think it is "urgent", it would be a good idea to explain what "plot a map" means.

The thread with the 2nd most votes is: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/29922-why-your-question-is-not-urgent-or-an-emergency

Therefore I suggest to edit the title accordingly.

[Lei]

oh I have a presentation on Monday.

So I need to plot a geological map to show my survey location.

It's just a staright line if I didnt remember wrong.

The problem is that I dont know how to use MATLAB plot it such as plot these coordinates on Google Map.

I tried to search each coordinates through google map, but you know that;s really frustrating.

[Lei]

or anyboday have any good ideas to put these coordinates on a map such as google map

[David]

Matlab support on this forum is actually useless. You speak about rules of forum but give no answers.

[Angelo Sajeva]

I agree with David, came here to look for a solution for it. Not satisfied so far..

Answer 1

[Rayn]

Not sure of the conversion from northing and easting, but a good place to start would be checking out function kmlwrite.

[Lei]

Hi Rayn,

Thanks for your advice.

I just manually put those coordinates in the google earth.

Still need to figure out a good way to deal with these coordinates

in the future.

Lei

[Rob Comer]

The coordinates listed don't look like northings and eastings to me; they look like latitudes and longitudes in western Canada. Northings and eastings, which are usually in meters or feet, tend to have much larger values, and are almost never negative.

If they are in fact latitudes and longitudes, then there's no need to convert before using kmlwrite.

[Walter Roberson]

Good catch, Rob, those do indeed look like coordinates for roughly 20 km south east of Calgary, which would be consistent with Lei's studies in Calgary.

[Chad Greene]

I agree with Rob that those are probably not projected eastings and northings, but I want to point out that eastings and northings can often be negative. I work primarily with a south polar stereographic projection where half the continent has negative eastings and half the continent has negative northings.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

See axesm and plotm

You could also use mapshow and see also geoshow