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grid references

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

latitude gridreferance longitude

asked 28 Nov '13, 08:03

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

(28 Nov '13, 11:09) Hendrikklaas

What / where (URL) is "the map"? What is your usecase?

(28 Nov '13, 20:01) aseerel4c26 ♦

2 Answers:

1	This depends on your webmap toolkit how to realize this functionality. There are also some maps with grids out there: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maps answered 28 Nov '13, 08:09 iii 4.9k●8●40●82 accept rate: 10%

0	Try to enter "grid" in the text search box at the top of this FAQ site ... there a some hints about that topic. answered 28 Nov '13, 17:26 stephan75 12.6k●5●56●210 accept rate: 6%