<html><head></head><body><div>If you dig a bit this thread comes up: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/MGRS-USNG-support-td3850052.html">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/MGRS-USNG-support-td3850052.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Which the thread was from 2006 and the USNG was a bit new (from what I can gather). </div><div><br></div><div>There is some python code that converts USNG to Coordinates and Coordinates to USNG-> <a href="http://pydoc.net/Python/geocamUtil/0.1/geocamUtil.usng.usng/">http://pydoc.net/Python/geocamUtil/0.1/geocamUtil.usng.usng/</a> (I've not used it but it's on the list)</div><div><br></div><div>It's MIT license - so I'm not sure how that would play with a plugin in QGIS - but it might be a way to use the OSGB plugin below. </div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Randy</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div style="width: 71ch;">Randal Hale </div><div style="width: 71ch;"><a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a></div><div style="width: 71ch;"><a href="https://www.northrivergeographic.com">https://www.northrivergeographic.com</a></div><div style="width: 71ch;">(423) 653-3611</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>-----Original Message-----</div><div><br></div><div><b>Date</b>: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:01:50 -0400</div><div><b>Subject</b>: Re: [QGIS-Developer] USNG Coordinate System</div><div><b>Cc</b>: 'qgis-developer' <<a href="mailto:'qgis-developer'%20%3cqgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org%3e">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>></div><div><b>To</b>: 'Martin Dobias' <<a href="mailto:'Martin%20Dobias'%20%3cwonder.sk@gmail.com%3e">wonder.sk@gmail.com</a>>, 'Barry Rowlingson' <<a href="mailto:'Barry%20Rowlingson'%20%3cb.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk%3e">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>></div><div><b>From</b>: Joshua Quesenberry <<a href="mailto:Joshua%20Quesenberry%20%3cengnfrc@gmail.com%3e">engnfrc@gmail.com</a>></div><pre>Barry,
I guess the kind of support I'm looking for would be the ability to create points using USNG coordinates, importing points from a file full of USNG formatted coordinates, seeing coordinates listed in USNG format in the window at the bottom of the window, saving in a shapefile, etc. I didn't realize Shapefile's can't store USNG format, so I guess that's does present issues...
USNG is now FEMA's standardized coordinate system, which includes Search & Rescue, which I do a lot of. So imagine being in the middle of an operation where USNG is being used... a team radios in the location of a clue or a patient, the next step for the GIS person right now would have to be converting the USNG coordinate to either UTM or Lat Lon, this all takes extra time and I haven't been able to find a good offline coordinate converter. Ideally you switch the layer to edit mode, navigate to the location, and click to add the point. If there were an "Add Point" button that pops up a dialog where you enter a USNG/UTM/LatLon coordinate would be a little better more. If I have a list of points to add right now I usually just create a csv, import the csv, and save as a shapefile.
Thanks,
Josh Q
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From: Martin Dobias [<a href="mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com">mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com</a>]
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To: Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>>
Cc: Joshua Quesenberry <<a href="mailto:engnfrc@gmail.com">engnfrc@gmail.com</a>>; qgis-developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] USNG Coordinate System
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:
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Would that be useful to you? It could be implemented as a Qgis python
function - its some string parsing and numeric manipulation.
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There are few plugins that add support for some coordinate systems - for example this plugin translates between map coordinates and OSGB Grid Ref (e.g. SX 7511 8607):
<a href="https://github.com/mtravis/gridref-qgis">https://github.com/mtravis/gridref-qgis</a>
You could use that one as a reference for your translator. It could be also a nice piece of functionality directly in QGIS where plugins could register their converter and QGIS would handle all the GUI related functionality (which plugins currently need to do themselves).
Cheers
Martin
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