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Module mgrs

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS/NATO) references.

Classes Mgrs, Mgrs4Tuple and Mgrs6Tuple and functions parseMGRS and toMgrs.

Pure Python implementation of MGRS, UTM and UPS conversions covering the entire ellipsoidal earth, transcoded from Chris Veness' JavaScript originals MGRS and Module mgrs and from Charles Karney's C++ class MGRS.

MGRS references comprise a grid zone designation (GZD), a 100 Km grid (square) tile identification and an easting and northing (in meter). The GZD consists of a longitudinal zone (or column) number and latitudinal band (row) letter in the UTM region between 80°S and 84°N. Each zone (column) is 6° wide and each band (row) is 8° high, except top band 'X' is 12° tall. In UPS polar regions below 80°S and above 84°N the GZD contains only a single letter, 'A' or 'B' near the south and 'Y' or 'Z' around the north pole (for west respectively east longitudes).

See also the United States National Grid and Military Grid Reference System.

See module pygeodesy.ups for env variable PYGEODESY_UPS_POLES determining the UPS encoding at the south and north pole.

Set env variable PYGEODESY_GEOCONVERT to the (fully qualified) path of the GeoConvert executable to run this module as python[3] -m pygeodesy.mgrs and compare the MGRS results with those from Karney's utility GeoConvert.


Version: 24.10.13

Classes
  Mgrs
Military Grid Reference System (MGRS/NATO) references, with method to convert to UTM coordinates.
  Mgrs4Tuple
4-Tuple (zone, EN, easting, northing), zone and grid tile EN as str, easting and northing in meter.
  Mgrs6Tuple
6-Tuple (zone, EN, easting, northing, band, datum), with zone, grid tile EN and band as str, easting and northing in meter and datum a Datum.
Functions
 
parseMGRS(strMGRS, datum=Datum(name='WGS84', ellipsoid=Ellipsoids.WGS84, transform=Tran..., Mgrs=<class 'pygeodesy.mgrs.Mgrs'>, **name)
Parse a string representing a MGRS grid reference, consisting of "[zone]Band, EN, easting, northing".
 
toMgrs(utmups, Mgrs=<class 'pygeodesy.mgrs.Mgrs'>, **name_Mgrs_kwds)
Convert a UTM or UPS coordinate to an MGRS grid reference.
Variables
  __all__ = _ALL_LAZY.mgrs
Function Details

parseMGRS (strMGRS, datum=Datum(name='WGS84', ellipsoid=Ellipsoids.WGS84, transform=Tran..., Mgrs=<class 'pygeodesy.mgrs.Mgrs'>, **name)

 

Parse a string representing a MGRS grid reference, consisting of "[zone]Band, EN, easting, northing".

Arguments:
  • strMGRS - MGRS grid reference (str).
  • datum - Optional datum to use (Datum).
  • Mgrs - Optional class to return the MGRS grid reference (Mgrs) or None.
  • name - Optional Mgrs name=NN (str).
Returns:
The MGRS grid reference as Mgrs or if Mgrs is None as an Mgrs4Tuple(zone, EN, easting, northing).
Raises:

toMgrs (utmups, Mgrs=<class 'pygeodesy.mgrs.Mgrs'>, **name_Mgrs_kwds)

 

Convert a UTM or UPS coordinate to an MGRS grid reference.

Arguments:
  • utmups - A UTM or UPS coordinate (Utm, Etm or Ups).
  • Mgrs - Optional class to return the MGRS grid reference (Mgrs) or None.
  • name_Mgrs_kwds - Optional name=NN (str) and optional, additional Mgrs keyword arguments, ignored if Mgrs is None.
Returns:
The MGRS grid reference as Mgrs or if Mgrs is None as an Mgrs6Tuple(zone, EN, easting, northing, band, datum).
Raises: