[OSGeo-Discuss] Munich Orientation Convention, Mapcodes, and All the Rest

[Ian Turton]

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>> Now that I have your attention, I believe you and the rest of the OSGeo
>> community would be well served by spending some time truly learning about
>> this issue.  In so doing, I’m sure the open minds among you will come to
>> the conclusion that USNG/MGRS is the answer to the issue I am addressing.
>> OSGeo could do the world a heap of good in doing so.
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Fascinating as this discussion is  I can't help wondering if you (as a
group) are confused as to what OSGeo does? - we write software and if you
publish a standard there is a fair chance we will write some code to
integrate that code into our software, especially if there is user demand.

So I expect you are preaching to the wrong people - either we care or we
don't but most of us have no power to change the world.

At the risk of prolonging this discussion I'll add the following.
Currently I'm not seeing any demand for this from users - I hear a lot of
talk about military and 1st responders but the last time I talked to a
military guy he was telling hair raising stories of US Army planes bombing
UK troops because they both use a grid system but the the US has letters up
the side of the map and the UK has letters across the bottom (it was
slightly more complex than that but basically that was the problem), so
their requirement was for WGS84 coordinates to match their GPS.

Ian
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