Thanks for the info, everyone. The JS implementation in particular
should be relatively easy to port.
-mike.
On Feb 9, 2010, at 2:56 PM, sophia parafina wrote:
Also, see http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/help_usng.html and
http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/usng.js
sophia
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[email protected]
> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:03:24PM -0800, Michal Migurski wrote:
> *gurgle* I was hoping to stick to short Python functions. Thanks
for the
> pointer, maybe there's something I can salvage from there!
Not simple or Python, but:
http://haiticrisismap.org/js/usng2.js
is some JS code that does the conversion.
-- Chris
> -mike.
>
> On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:43 PM, George Demmy wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> It's essentially a table look-up. It's explained in detail in the
DMA
>> Tech Manual. However, there is a fairly clean C implementation for
>> doing this with Geotrans -- a calculator for converting geographic
>> coordinates that's pretty nifty in its own right. They also have a
>> module for USNG, which is very similar.
>>
>> http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> George Demmy
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Michal Migurski <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to understand how to convert between lat/lon, UTM, and
>>> MGRS.
>>>
>>> UTM is a piece of cake, but MGRS is confusing. I'm looking at the
>>> wikipedia
>>> article, and I don't understand how to reliably determine the
SQ_ID,
>>> "FJ" in
>>> the example here:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system
>>>
>>> What's the process for determining those 100km square areas?
>>>
>>> -mike.
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