Ordnance Survey Coordinate System (OSGB)

[Stephen-A-J]

Request suppot of the OSGB coordinate system as an alternative to Lat/Long. This is the standard system used in the UK.

This feature is supported in most standalone GPS units and Android mapping apps that I have seen.

In the UK most (paper) walking books and magazines list the waypoints on a route using the OS (Ordnance Survey) grid ref. This is quite short (eg "ST 123 678") and so is very easy to type in. This ref is accurate to 100m which is good enough for most purposes, but a longer form "ST 12345 67890" gives an accuracy of 1m.

Workaround: At the moment I have to type these waypoints into another mapping program, save the generated route as a GPX file and then load that into OSMAND. It would obviously be great if I could enter it into OSMAND direct.

[stevenculshaw]

+1 for this, if you're packing printed maps for planning or backup it would be nice if the two matched so you don't need to convert all your waypoints which is tedious.

[nickleverton]

Yes another +1 please. I've been looking for a plugin to do this without success. To support OSGB NGR natively would improve its useability massively since all UK location references use it.

[wookey]

Another request. OSGB is still heavily used in the UK. I am on a group walking holiday right now and the walk starts are given as OSGB and What3words (boo!). Not Lat/long or OLC. I realise that there are a lot of national co-ordinate systems, with varying degrees of popularity and putting them all in the list would make a very long list, but a plugin for this functionality, or some other way to select which national co-ordinate system you wanted shown in the list would be marvellous. As I just failed to find anything that does OSGB->something Osmand understands conversion, I don't mind coding up something (in principle - I know nothing about the osmand plugin architecture or what language these things are written in, but I'm going to presume it's not that hard). We should perhaps discuss here what the right interface for choosing national co-ordinate systems is. Do we just keep making the co-ordinate entry list longer and hope that there aren't requests for too many, or arrange to include one (or two?) national systems on the list. If the latter where does that configuration happen?

[mattgreenuk]

Another +1 from me :-) The OS reference system is used almost exclusively across the UK - we rarely see lat/long or other coordinate systems here. There is the broader question of should the list of supported coordinate systems just grow and grow? Some are country-specific whereas some are global - should they appear the same or as a hierarchy in the selection menu?