In the post-war years, these concepts were extended into the Universal Transverse Mercator/Universal Polar Stereographic (UTM/UPS) coordinate system, which is a global (or universal) system of grid-based maps.
I efterkrigsårene, blev disse koncepter udvidet ind i Universal Transverse Mercator / Universal Polar Stereographic (UTM/UPS) koordinatsystemer, som er globale (eller Universelle) systemer af grid-baserede kort.