Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Convert PLSS (Section, Township, Range, Meridian) to Latitude and Longitude using R package or Python


I have data in the form of Section, Township, Range and meridian. I have 300,000 data points from all over the USA. Is there any way i can write R or python scripts to batch convert all the points to latitude and longitude? What kind of equations they use to convert it into latitude and longitude?


I found this online tool which gives latitude and longitude of centroid and four corners of the section, but I want to do the same thing using R or Python.


http://www.earthpoint.us/TownshipsSearchByDescription.aspx



I tried to search online but couldn't find any information regarding this except online tools where we put information for each point manually.


first few lines of my data:


Township    Range1  Section  QQ            Footages
154 N 96 W 3 SWNE 1980 FNL 1980 FEL
154 N 96 W 3 NWNE 660 FNL 1980 FEL
136 N 83 W 22 NENW 330 FNL 2310 FWL
141 N 81 W 18 SESE 660 FSL 660 FEL
133 N 75 W 35 NWSW 1980 FSL 660 FWL
132 N 48 W 11 NWSW 2310 FSL 330 FWL
157 N 85 W 16 SESE 60 FSL 300 FEL

140 N 77 W 6 SWSW 330 FSL 330 FWL


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