Converting UTM to Latitude and Longitude in ColdFusion (CFC)

In the National Register location data, everything is plotted with UTM coordinates (zone, easting, and northing).  I want to use this location information in work I’m doing on PAB, which at the moment requires me to convert everything to latitude and longitude.

I could do this in ArcMap, and reproject the whole dataset.  But I want to write an automated import script for NR data, so I had to find code I could use in ColdFusion separate from traditional GIS software.

Found paydirt in Chuck Taylor’s GIS toolbox.  He has a javascript version of the conversion routines, so all I needed to do was migrate that to a ColdFusion component (CFC).  Having freely received, I’ll freely give — here’s the CFC for converting UTM to latitude and longitude.  No restrictions attached.

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