Questions tagged [maidenhead-locator]
The Maidenhead locator system allows expressing a latitude and longitude as a compact series of letters and numbers, and was adopted in 1980. A Maidenhead locator is typically expressed as two or three groups of two characters each; if higher precision is required, four groups of two characters each can be used. Groups alternate between letters and numbers; for example BL (field), BL11 (square), BL11BH (subsquare), or BL11BH16 (extended square).
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Is there a public standard for 8 and 10 character grid locators?
We have a question about the algorithm for conversion from coordinates into grid squares here, and this is an extension of that.
I've noticed that there are several web-sites (for example here, or ...
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Lat/Long to Maidenhead Locator in PHP
Looking for some PHP code to convert decimal lat and long to maidenhead locator/grid square.
I saw one answer on here for the match, but I think there was an error in it so I can't trust it. I am ...
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Mobile Phone offline maindenhead or mgrs web app [closed]
I read an article in a magazine or online about a (.gov, I think) site which showed two, four to six character sequences in a mobile phone browser window. The letters from left to right indicated ...
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How can one convert from Grid Square to Lat/Long?
Can someone explain how can get the Lat/Lon of a given Grid square? (the middle of the grid would be the best).
I've looked at this (that does the "reverse"...from lat/lo to grid"):
How can one ...
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Convert maidenhead grid square to lat/long in Excel?
I have a list of maidenhead grid squares in an Excel sheet that I want to convert to latitude and longitude. I want to keep it as simple as possible. Does anyone know of a formula to convert from ...
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How can one convert from Lat/Long to Grid Square?
I see that many contests, awards, and other items, use Grid Squares as a means to identify where one is. How can one figure out what one's grid square is, given lat/long?
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