Grid Reference To Country Translation

[Jumbo Village]

Hi Gang,

 

Given a grid reference, are there any web sites that will tell me what country it's in? That's all the data I need! Ideally, for the UK, I'd like that broken down into England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well.

 

Thanks (in hope)

Richard

[+rutson]

Ditto counties, especially the raw data would be good

[+CuplaKiwis]

Try Mapquest - won't do a grid ref off an OS map directly (have yet to see one that can), but if you have lat and long it will take these in decimal or deg/min/sec. You need to zoom out to figure out where you are tho' - no text sorry!

Edited January 3, 2005 by CuplaKiwis

[+Snosrap]

Have a look at Streetmap.co.uk. I think you have to enter Northings & Eastings rather than Landranger Grid but it also has a useful co-ordinate conversion facility which converts Lat/Long to OS (including Landranger) and even postcodes.

 

The conversion page is not easy to find - look at the blue box below the 'Ask Jeeves' advert.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edit: Just opened my eyes enough to see that you can enter Landranger as well as OS Grid directly.

Edited January 3, 2005 by Snosrap

[vectensis]

You could try putting a map of the world on your wall or maybe looking in an atlas.

 

They will both give you the information you want. Not very high tech I admit.

[Jumbo Village]

I could try asking my pc to look at a world map on my wall, but I don't think it would know what I was talking about!

 

Thanks for the streetmap advice, but I don't see anywhere that converts OS/Landranger etc down to a specific Country. It's the text in the web page I'm after, as that's what will be translated by my program. Ho hum!

[+Snosrap]

The Streetmap conversion page will return a postcode which in turn could maybe be checked against some form of address finder?

 

A bit messy but could be made to work I assume. The main problem is likely to be that all the automated address finders I've seen require a fee or have very limited functionality.