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Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) coordinate

ID mgrs

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Position written in the Military Grid Reference System of NATO, which is based on UTM. It is a grid zone designator (a UTM zone number from 1 to 60 and a latitude band letter from C to X without I and O), a two-letter identifier of a 100 km square, and an even number of digits, up to ten, that give the easting and then the northing within the square: four digits locate a 1 km square, ten digits a 1 m square. Spaces between the parts are optional. The regexp does not cover the polar regions, which use the UPS form with bands A, B, Y and Z.

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Geographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
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Common to most languages
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Regular expression

^(?:[1-9]|[1-5][0-9]|60)[C-HJ-NP-X] ?[A-HJ-NP-Z][A-HJ-NP-V](?: ?(?:\d ?\d|\d{2} ?\d{2}|\d{3} ?\d{3}|\d{4} ?\d{4}|\d{5} ?\d{5}))?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
4Q FJ 1234 678910 m precision, example from the Wikipedia article
4QFJ12346789The same position without spaces
4QFJ100 km square only
4Q FJ 123 6789 invalidEasting and northing of different lengths
61Q FJ 1234 6789 invalidThere are only 60 zones

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianКоордината MGRSПоложение в военной системе координатной сетки НАТО (MGRS): зона UTM, квадрат 100 км и чётное число цифр восточного и северного смещения.

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