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Display coordinate grid on maps

Zul Fahmi shared this idea 9 years ago
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Just a simple coordinate grid on the map...similar to offlinemaps/alpinequest...

A 'must on' option when im using offlinemaps/alpinequest...

Easier when drawing track etc...

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since my topic was merged I would like to add there is a need for grid like on classic printed map but with better resolution like for

example 50m so it would be great to have this feature where you can select color

and grid settings (because sometimes you work on squares like 25m other times 50m etc; color is important as hipso maps are so colorful that typical color just blends in).

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I like this, too.

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This would be extremely helpful for boating and navigating ships, especially since there is usually just a contourless blue surface visible on the map when you are on the water.

Visible coordinate lines/grids may provide the only reference when on water.

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Also very useful for geocaching when checking caches for graticule challenges

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Je souhaiterai pouvoir afficher une grille UTM sur la carte encours d'utilisation

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That would be great.

- Display of UTM/MGRS grid

- Display of custom grid that can be exported/imported via some file format. For ex. putting it over 1x1km square and dividing into 100x100m smaller ones with cols/rows names like A, B, C... 1,2,3...

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How about Maidenhead Grid Squares? This would be very excellent for Ham Radio

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We really need a grid that divides the area, the map into squares, when the size of the map approaches, the squares decrease ... Thank you!

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This ability would best be implemented in a general sense and then adapt to specific purpose. I like Maidenhead for radio work, but also would be great to break it down into USGS Quads. Possibly others could do similar things.

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i like this too. regards

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i need this too

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indeed this function would be very useful.

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I like this too Either way, I want the map to display a coordinate grid.

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I would like a lot if there would be an option to display a grid on the map based on the distance shown on the scale bar. Example: if on my zoom level my scale bar shows 3 km, then if I have this "grid setting" on I would see a 3 km X 3 km grid over the map. If I click on the scale bar to expand it, the grid size would also be expanded.

This feature would help me a lot with quickly estimating distances while I navigate on the map. I've attached a screenshot as an example (I just randomly drew some lines on the map. Distances are not accurate at all :))

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Did you already try "Settings > Maps > Auxiliary graphics" and then the Distance and/or time circles?

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Yes! I use both distance and time circles and I really like them, but as they are anchored to my location, I can't really use them to get an estimation by eye of distances between arbitrary points on the map. For example, if I want to estimate the distance between the two points on my screenshot, a grid system would help.

Update: while I was writing this message I actually found this other thread https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/allow-distance-rings-to-move-with-cursor-without-disabling-gps which introduced me to the the "quick distance measure" feature. https://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:functions:measure. Very useful! I guess it solves most of my use cases, but like the author mentioned, using two fingers while I have the phone mounted on a phone holder on the bicycle is a bit tricky.

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Try disabling GPS and using distance circles.

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I noticed there's a grid overlay on Locus Map 4 version

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and where did you get this version ?

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In the link where he posted. in the first post under download.

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on google drive I see only version 3.49 and not 4

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thats because LM 4 hasn't been officially released yet. But the latest 3.49.x version on the GDrive has quite a lot of LM 4 features.

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