Development of an Android Application for Transformation of Nigeria Projected Coordinates from Local to Universal Transverse Mercator

Abstract

This paper presents an Android application for Coordinate Transformation. The developed Android application called Nigeria PCS transforms Nigerian Transverse Mercator (NTM) coordinates to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates and vice versa. It can also convert UTM coordinate to geographic coordinate, NTM coordinate to geographic coordinate, geographic coordinate to UTM coordinate and geographic coordinate to NTM coordinate. Five (5) random coordinates were generated on each zone of the UTM and belt of the NTM to compare the computational accuracy of Nigeria PCS (herein developed) with Blue marble geographic calculator and Franson coordinate transformation software using the Student‘s t-test for independent samples and one-way ANOVA at 99% confidence interval on SPSS version 22. The results after the statistical analysis show that there is no significant difference between Nigeria PCS, Blue marble geographic calculator and Franson coordinate transformation software. Nigeria PCS can be installed on an Android phone with a minimum of Android 4.0.3 Ice Scream Sandwich operating system.