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Can I overlay the map with lines of longitude and latitude to obtain grid references?

asked 28 Nov '13, 08:03

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Aren’t the lat/lon attributes in P2 sufficient ?

(28 Nov '13, 11:09) Hendrikklaas
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What / where (URL) is "the map"? What is your usecase?

(28 Nov '13, 20:01) aseerel4c26 ♦

This depends on your webmap toolkit how to realize this functionality. There are also some maps with grids out there: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maps

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answered 28 Nov '13, 08:09

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Try to enter "grid" in the text search box at the top of this FAQ site ... there a some hints about that topic.

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answered 28 Nov '13, 17:26

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