Convert between UTM and Degree coordinates using Google Spreadsheets

Converting between different coordinate reference systems or projection is a fairly standard feature in a GIS. There are a number of command line tools also available for performing bulk-conversions. cs2cs program, part of the PROJ.4 library is my favorite. ...

Calculate distance between a pair of lat/lon coordinates

I recently had a need to calculate distance between a large number of latitude/longitude coordinate pairs. There are many options available if you want to import these in a GIS and run analysis. But there is a simpler and much more accesible way if you aren’t doing very high accuracy calculations. ...