How do you get the 8 digit grid on Google Maps? To access Google Maps, click on the image below: To use Google Maps position the map and, using the zoom tool on the left-hand side of the screen, zoom in to the maximum level to find the place for which you want a Grid Reference. Then either: Click "Grid Reference Tools" and choose "Get For example, the CN Tower is at , which is in UTM zone 17, and the grid position is 630 084 m east, 4 833 438 Two points in Zone 17 have these coordinates, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the south; the non-ambiguous format is to specify the full zone and band, that is, "17T 630084 4833438". Example 3: Hill 2122. The hill lies on a grid line meaning that for a six-digit grid reference, the Easting has to include a zero at the end. Hence the six-digit grid reference of Hill 2122 is 010977. Since the map is an old map ('1:31680 Caoura') and uses the AMG reference system, the six-digit grid reference is 'Caoura AMG-010977'. How accurate is a six digit grid coordinate? A 1:50,000 scale map is only accurate to 50m 90% of the time so a 6 digit (100m precision) or an 8 digit (10m precision) are more appropriate. locate the grid square in which the point (for example, Point A, Figure 2) is located (the point should already be plotted on the map). The number of the 3. Grid North. What North is used when using a military map? Magnetic North when using a compass, Grid North when using the map. What is the scale of a map? The ratio of ground distance to map distance and expressed as a fraction. How close does an eight digit, six digit, and four digit grid coordinate locate a point? 4 digits - 2306 - locates 0. Depends how you have the digits, but you could probably just divide by 1e6 in your particular case as it seems there are six decimal points: coords = (12345678, -34567890) latitude, longitude = (i/1e6 for i in coords) print (latitude, longitude) You can't just assume a decimal after the first two digits, because -1.625730 is a valid .

8 digit grid coordinate example