[Qgis-user] MGRS Coordinates: a recurrent question

[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 should not use mine
>> :-)
>>
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geographiclib
>>
>> My question is: I would like to user MGRS as one of the others
>> native CRS available on the system (choosing it in systems dialog
>> and so on).
>>
>> What is the proper way to plug my code inside QGIS to have it
>> available in all the system?
>>
>> Since the people on proj seems to be aginst implementing MGS within
>> proj, my first thought was to write a wrapper around proj, so I
>> will pass the reqests to proj UNLESS I found a MGRS CRS, which
>> should be tackled by my routines.
>>
>> Is this a reasonable way to go? or is there any other way, more
>> "QGISish"?
>>
>> If this is the proper way, where I shoud hook my conversion code?
>>
>> Thanks, larzeni
>>