How do you import site locations recorded as UTM coordinates?
Import them as UTM directly, specifying the zone, rather than converting to latitude and longitude by hand first. The locations are then stored and displayed correctly alongside data collected by GPS.
UTM is standard in a lot of national survey and engineering practice, so existing asset registers frequently arrive in it. Hand-converting coordinates is where silent errors enter a facility inventory: a wrong zone or a transposed easting puts a water point in the wrong district, and nobody notices until a district report has the wrong count. Importing the native format removes that step.
How to do it
Confirm which UTM zone your coordinates use, and whether they are northern or southern hemisphere.
Prepare the file with easting, northing and zone in their own columns.
Import the sites, mapping those columns to the UTM fields rather than to latitude and longitude.
Check a handful of imported sites on a map against a known reference before trusting the batch.
Confirm administrative regions were assigned as expected, which is a fast way to catch a zone error.