Obtaining Grid-Refs - The Easy Way For All The UK

[SteveMcBill]

Phil,

The main RODIS facility provides a mapping portion for obtaining Grid Refs. and this can be accessed from the following link:

http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/RODISCheshire/RODIS.aspx

You can either Log-in to RODIS and use the button next to the Grid-Ref field OR you can just click the 'black' "Map" link at the top right of the Log-in window.

The other way to obtain Grid Refs is to use the rECOrd website mapping facility at: http://googlemaps.record-lrc.co.uk/.

I have no idea what has happened to the link you posted but I will amend the top post in this thread to reflect the fact that that link is no longer operative. Thank you for the 'heads-up'.

Cheers.
Steve

[Phil_Hampson]

Thanks Steve.

Cheers,
Phil

[RachelMC]

I think that the link Phil tried to use was disabled when the RODIS mapping facility was reconfigured to use the OS Open Space API.

All descriptions of Grid Ref tools have been bundled under a set of web pages - mainly for a lay person's information but also useful for accessing Google Maps and RODIS mapping.

http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/c2.aspx?Mod ... ticleID=48.

[Phil_Hampson]

Rachel,

Thank you, interesting page. It looks to me though that you cannot directly access a tool to get map references as was previously available. If I have read this correctly you have to be entering records in RODIS which I don't do. Its not an issue for me I was just trying to get a map ref electronically as I was being lazy and not getting the map out!

Phil

[SteveMcBill]

Not supplied by rECOrd but you could try here Phil: http://gridreferencefinder.com/gmap.php.

Steve

[SteveMcBill]

Phil,

You can use the mapping facility IN RODIS without even logging in to the facility and certainly without entering data. Just click the black "Map" link in the top right of the RODIS Log-in window to get to the mapping facility where you can get your Grid Refs. - http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/RODISCheshire/RODIS.aspx

Steve

[Phil_Hampson]

Steve,

My mistake. The cursor doesn't change when you go over it so I assumed, wrongly, that you had to be logged in. I've never seen that with a link before.

Hasten to add it was never an issue this.

Cheers,
Phil

[RachelMC]

Thanks for the feedback.

For information, we've collected together all the information on reading and obtaining Grid References and put it in a collection of web pages on the RECORD website. Click the link below to see:

All About Grid References