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== Georef? ==

Anyone heard of Georef? When I was in the [[Royal Observer Corps]], many years ago, I remember we used "UTM" on some maps, which seems to be the [[Military grid reference system]]; co-ordinates (within Europe, say) were like "PQ 123 456". But on other maps, we used a system I remember being called "Georef". This had a similar notation — two letters to identify a major "square", then two or more digits to identify a point within the "square" — but was based on lat-long, not UTM; hence, the "squares" were curved-trapezoids. You got the accuracy of lat-long with the convenient notation of UTM / British grid. Now I can't find any info on Georef (which, if it really existed, sureley deserves a mention). Anyone ever heard of this? — [[User:Johantheghost|Johantheghost]] 18:10, 2 December 2005 (UTC)