[Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

Stuart Choosing “East/North” tab from Tools>Add node and against “Projected coordinates:” inputting full coordinates from the BNG origin, such as “474795 178597” (Eastings metres before Northings) works, so far as I see. Anyone having 100-Kilometre two-letter grid references would need to use a

Re: [Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

Hi Bob (and anyone else who’s done this), I’ve reset the projection, and can now see the coordinates in OSGR. Yay! But does anyone know how I can jump to a set of coordinates? If I click the coordinate boxes, the menu that comes up still insists on Lat/Lon. Thanks Stuart On 22 Oct 2017, at 10

Re: [Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

I imagine so. When working in PostGIS, coordinates are Lon/Lat so that it maps into an (x,y) format. Since JOSM displays Lat/Lon this rather sounds like the reverse in order to preserve the presentation format. Agree it's confusing though. Although thanks for the tip - will now go and set mine

[Talk-GB] British National Grid coordinates in JOSM

I have got round to resetting the map projection in JOSM to EPSG:27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid), finally. I am surprised to find northings before eastings in the bottom left-hand corner of JOSM, when we reference BNG positions eastings before northings. I wonder if this has somethin