I'd love to be able to see British National Grid coordinates on OsmAnd+ Its ability to display multiple datasets is excellent, but lat long is not ideal when our maps are all BNG
Rob On Sunday, 19 January 2014 21:03:31 UTC, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > > sunnuntai, 19. tammikuuta 2014 17.57.39 UTC+2 Markus Zielonka kirjoitti: >> >> Seeking help for a plugin MGSR UTM position input and output. >> > IIRC, someone from an English-speaking country asked a similar question > less than a month ago, and I did not see an answer to that. > I am just a fellow user and an OSM contributor, but I have some knowledge > in this area. > > OsmAnd and GPS natively uses the WGS84 coordinate system. Governments > around the world have defined their own coordinate systems. EPSG used to > compile a list of these coordinate system. For example, one variation of > the one used in Finland (KKJ, karttakoordinaattijärjestelmä) is called > EPSG:2391 <http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/2391/>. My old Garmin > device (Edge 705) offers a list of different coordinate systems, but I > never needed anything else than WGS84. I think that it should be fairly > easy to support the display and input of different coordinates by linking > to the PROJ.4 <http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/> library. > > The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system> seems to > consist of multiple Universal Transverse Mercator > <http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Universal_Transverse_Mercator> zones. > I wonder which UTM zone Germany (or the part of Germany where you operate) > would belong to. You can search for UTM in the Spatial Reference list > <http://spatialreference.org/ref/?search=UTM>. > > I guess that the new OsmAnd plugin should link to PROJ.4. The user could > enter special PROJ.4 parameters in the settings, to choose how to display > and input map coordinates. > > Best regards, > > Marko > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/3d71cb91-f6f7-4624-9e85-73a2910c8056%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
