[Rda-users] Station Location coordinate systems and projection

[Woods, Brian, DOH]

Greetings.  I recently attempted spatial joins of meteorological stations in New Mexico to zip and census polygons and found the raw longitude and latitude problematic to work with.  Even after converting to decimal values it appeared station values are displaced from NM features in NAD 83 projections.  Does anyone know the coordinate system used for station data or where that is documented and can be found?

Thank you.

Brian.

Brian Woods
Environmental Public Health Epidemiologist
Environmental Public Health Tracking
Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau
Epidemiology and Response Division
New Mexico Department of Health
1190 St. Francis Drive, N1309
505-827-2868 (Office)
505-476-1743 (EHEB Office)
505-827-2110 (Fax)
http://nmhealth.org/eheb/
https://nmtracking.unm.edu/

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