{"id":3,"date":"2012-01-18T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-04-26T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:51:39","slug":"osgb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are frequent questions about the Ordnance Survey national grid in\u00a0Britain and many who wish to manipulate data in Ordnance Survey format. \u00a0 Questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0What is the Ordnance Survey reference system?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How do I convert references to and from latitude and longitude?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How do I set my GPS receiver?<\/li>\n<li>Where can I get waypoint information for walks in the UK?<\/li>\n<li>Where can I buy UTM maps for\u00a0Britain?<\/li>\n<li>How can we manipulate OS data?<\/li>\n<li>How can I get GPX files into an <em><strong><a title=\"Excel Conversion Spreadsheet\" href=\"\/osgb\/excel-conversion-code\/\">excel spreadsheet<\/a><\/strong><\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>How can I use OS references with mapping software?<\/li>\n<li>How can I\u00a0easily plot data on Google Earth?<\/li>\n<li>How many norths are there?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These notes and the accompanying software are an attempt to give background information which will either answer those questions directly or show an alternative way of working which is more helpful in\u00a0Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Excel routines are also available to convert latitude and longitude to and from OS references, compute bearings and ranges, compute variations from north, import and export GPX files, show data on Google Earth and convert postcode and zipcodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are frequent questions about the Ordnance Survey national grid in\u00a0Britain and many who wish to manipulate data in Ordnance Survey format. \u00a0 Questions such as: \u00a0What is the Ordnance Survey reference system? \u00a0How do I convert references to and from latitude and longitude? \u00a0How do I set my GPS receiver? Where can I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haroldstreet.org.uk\/osgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}