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Get-a-map for Irish grid refrences exists see clifden it uses the A to Y notation followed Km North and East.
The instructions above say use one of the templates which use this one, but cites no examples. Andy Mabbett 13:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
It would be wonderful to be able to use this (or something like it) from an external website, so that the link would be to, say
which would return the Wikipedia page with links to the various mapping services (and thereby promote Wikipedia!). Andy Mabbett 13:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I've finally (!) gotten around to copying the page as you suggest, and it works well. Thank you very much. I've updated all the links on the main "county" pages on http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ and will do the stragglers as I as I revisit the pages. I've also added a "noscript" section, for people without JavaScript enabled. The back button works fine, in Firefox 2. Andy Mabbett 13:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you add in link to Geograph (UK photographs of every 1km grid square) Using their browse.php seems to take an OS Grid ref
eg. http://www.geograph.co.uk/browse.php?gridref=SK176462 to use the example above.
As the photos are under {{ cc-by-sa-2.0}} they can be used in articles
-- Elwell 11:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
For those interested in fine detail, be aware that the lat/long calculated by this resource are for the OSGB 36 datum. This will give slight errors if they are used in resources that expect WGS 84. For example if we ask multimap to show us Mavis Enderby using her grid reference directly we get this. But if we do it via oscoor (select the "Multimap - with circle (using lat/long)" option) the circle falls about 100 metres away.
Fortunately Template:coor assumes that lat/long are in OSGB 36 when it converts them back to a Grid Ref, so we do not get any "drift". -- RHaworth 06:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
If the external resource is moved, it will be necessary also to change:
Why is this template not in Category:Coordinates templates? -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 11:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
At last, the resource has been fixed to generate WGS84 co-ordinates. To test: try a full "10 figure" grid ref such as: NF7891955927. In the GeoHack page, select the StreetMap link. In StreetMap go to: "Click here to convert coordinates". This should give a difference of no more than 1 metre.
Please note that GeoHack's back-conversion from lat/long to grid ref has not yet been fixed. So the grid ref displayed and those links which use grid ref, eg. Ordnance Survey Get-a-map are still wrong. The corrected modules are available here - anyone with ToolServer rights willing to install them for me? — RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 22:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I've found that clicking a grid ref in any page such as Oxford railway station is failing today, whilst it worked yesterday. Pages using Template:Gbmaprim, such as Template:Gbmapscaled (which is called from Template:Infobox GB station) all come eventually to this template, which tries to access http://rhaworth.com/os/coor_g.php?pagename=Oxford_railway_station¶ms=SP504063_region:GB_scale:25000 and the error thrown is:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /os/coor_g.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
The en.wikipedia article Croesor is trying to use the following external link generated by oscoor:
The result was the following error (which I've modified slightly to simulate the linkable url)...
Warning: mysql_connect() [ function.mysql-connect ]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) in /www/110mb.com/r/h/a/w/o/r/t/h/rhaworth/htdocs/os/coor_g.php on line 107 Could not connect: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)
If you click the function.mysql-connect link you will get a "404 not-found" error. Can anyone help figure what is going on? -- Itsfullofstars ( talk) 00:32, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Template takes us to a broken toolserver page :( -- Tagishsimon (talk) 17:44, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
When the external resource is moved, it will be necessary also to change:
I have had toolserver rights for some months now so I have very little excuse for not transferring the resiurce to the toolserver. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 15:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Logs of calls to the external resource can be found:
— RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 11:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to get locationsusing this template to turn up on a Template:GeoGroup list. It doesn't seem to currently. Oranjblud ( talk) 16:51, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
This template has a very unfortunate effect on printable versions af articles, in that the long toolserver.org URL is fully expanded without a break, making infoboxes ridiculously wide, eg see Windsor castle printable (used via Gbmapping) - do a print (preview) for an even worse effect, the side text to the box is lost off the side of the page in upright A4. I don't know how to fix/improve this, but if someone knows howto that would be good. Thanks. Rwendland ( talk) 11:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
{{
gbmapping|SU9701977005}}
and {{
coord|51.4837|-0.6042|type:landmark_region:GB-WNM|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
differ (incidentally, SU9701977005 is accurate to one metre, which is
way too precise) in such respects as CSS styling. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:54, 18 September 2013 (UTC){{
coord}}
applies class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"
which {{
gbmapping}}
doesn't. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:06, 18 September 2013 (UTC)This
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Please consider changing
<span style="white-space: nowrap">[http://tools.wmflabs.org/os/coor_g/?pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}¶ms={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]</span><includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}||[[Category:Articles with OS grid coordinates]]}}</includeonly><noinclude>
to
<span style="white-space: nowrap">[//tools.wmflabs.org/os/coor_g/?pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}¶ms={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]</span><includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}||[[Category:Articles with OS grid coordinates]]}}</includeonly><noinclude>
in order to use a protocol-relative URL for the tools.wmflabs.org link. Thanks. -- Elegie ( talk) 21:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
[{{fullurl:toollabs:os/coor g/|pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}¶ms={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]
instead.
SiBr4 (
talk) 10:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
<span style="white-space: nowrap">[http://tools.wmflabs.org/os/coor_g/?pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}¶ms={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]</span><includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}||[[Category:Articles with OS grid coordinates]]}}</includeonly><noinclude>
<span style="white-space: nowrap">[{{fullurl:toollabs:os/coor g/|pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}¶ms={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]</span><includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}||[[Category:Articles with OS grid coordinates]]}}</includeonly><noinclude>