Comments on: GB+Ireland Gridlines for (Mapping) Garmin GPSr’s http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2006/07/16/gbireland-gridlines-for-mapping-garmin-gpsrs/ GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2006/07/16/gbireland-gridlines-for-mapping-garmin-gpsrs/#comment-747 Barry Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:06:48 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2006/07/16/gbireland-gridlines-for-mapping-garmin-gpsrs/#comment-747 Hello John, It's true that many handheld GPS's can display and work with Grid References. What this does is display visible grid-lines on the GPS screen, see the screenshots, eg: http://www.nearby.org.uk/garmin/gridlines3.png maybe the emap could do that, but my GPSMAP76 couldn't, where needs must and all that... Admittedly not <em>that </em>useful, but makes matching the gps screen to printed OS maps much easier... also good for <a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/">Geograph</a> Barry Hello John,

It’s true that many handheld GPS’s can display and work with Grid References.

What this does is display visible grid-lines on the GPS screen, see the screenshots, eg:
http://www.nearby.org.uk/garmin/gridlines3.png
maybe the emap could do that, but my GPSMAP76 couldn’t, where needs must and all that…
Admittedly not that useful, but makes matching the gps screen to printed OS maps much easier… also good for Geograph
Barry

]]> By: john stone http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2006/07/16/gbireland-gridlines-for-mapping-garmin-gpsrs/#comment-740 john stone Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:06:56 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2006/07/16/gbireland-gridlines-for-mapping-garmin-gpsrs/#comment-740 I am surprised that you had to create nat grid lines. I think that all garmin devices allow the oppurtunity to change the base mapping to uk nat grid under the "set up map" "location" menu which lists uk nat grid as one of the options. certainly my very old emap has this and i have happily searched for landranger refs in the maps. I am surprised that you had to create nat grid lines. I think that all garmin devices allow the oppurtunity to change the base mapping to uk nat grid under the “set up map” “location” menu which lists uk nat grid as one of the options. certainly my very old emap has this and i have happily searched for landranger refs in the maps.

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