Re: [Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-29 Thread Andre Joost
Am 28.11.2013 20:02, schrieb Luca Arzeni: Is this a reasonable way to go? or is there any other way, more QGISish? Maybe this: You could set up a database with polygons of the whole world containing the MGRS letter codes, and do a spatial join with your coordinates. But I don't know which

[Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-28 Thread Luca Arzeni
Hi there, Environment QGIS 2.0, Debian GNU Linux 7.0 on AMD64 I need to show to the user the coordinates in MGRS, as it moves the pointer over a map, as currently happens for the system defined CRS I saw that I could define a CRS conversion using proj, but looking at few old mail it seems that

Re: [Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-28 Thread Albin Blaschka
Am 28.11.2013 09:59, schrieb Luca Arzeni: Hi there, Environment QGIS 2.0, Debian GNU Linux 7.0 on AMD64 I need to show to the user the coordinates in MGRS, as it moves the pointer over a map, as currently happens for the system defined CRS I saw that I could define a CRS conversion using

Re: [Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-28 Thread Alexandre Neto
Hello, In times I though about doing a python plugin for it, but I have never had the time to do it. I think that is a valid idea for a plugin as for instance Biologists and Botanics very often use MGRS to register species location. I believe that 2 option arise: 1 - ask some help to developers

Re: [Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-28 Thread Andre Joost
Am 28.11.2013 13:24, schrieb Alexandre Neto: Hello, In times I though about doing a python plugin for it, but I have never had the time to do it. I think that is a valid idea for a plugin as for instance Biologists and Botanics very often use MGRS to register species location. I believe that 2

Re: [Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

2013-11-28 Thread Andre Joost
Backporting to the list: Am 28.11.2013 20:02, schrieb Luca Arzeni: Thanks to all, I was not clear in my question... I already have the code to do the conversion... beside it, the geograpphic lib is already available in python and, since it's the code under proj, I think I would use it if I