More about MGRS/US National Grid

Posted February 18th, 2010 by aat3bf
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Grid

I would suggest that USNG/MGRS be allowed in any location where lat/long is permitted.  Furthermore, it would be useful to have a setting to create "hovers" with the grid coordinates along with lat/long.  It would go a long way to bridge the "communications gap" between civilian responders and Coast Guard/National Guard pilots regarding "where".  Addditionally, it is my belief that verbal radio transmission of grid coordinates is less likely to be mishandled than degrees-minutes-seconds, fractional degrees, etc.

Thanks for the webinar today! 

john

 

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Thanks

On March 10th, 2010 George says:

John,

Thanks for this. We'll look into the sources available. So far, I have only found shapefiles from Delta State University's GIT Department. We need a WMS (windows mapping service) to add it as a Quickstart source. If you know of one, please share.

Best,
George
Depiction Support

 George, there is an

On March 11th, 2010 aat3bf says:

 George, there is an algorithm to convert the coordinates.  It is available here http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/index.html in source and object form.

john

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Cool

On March 11th, 2010 George says:

That looks like a very useful tool, John. Thanks for the pointer. I've passed it on to our dev team to see if they can figure out a way to include it's functionality in Depiction.

George