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Maidenhead Grid Locator

Convert a place or a coordinate to a grid locator, and back. Conversions run in your browser; address lookups use OpenStreetMap Nominatim.

What do you have?

2, 4, 6 or 8 characters, any case.

Grid locator

CN85JC
Latitude
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Longitude
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Extent
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Locator
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Place
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WGS84, centre of CN85JC. A subsquare is 5′ × 2.5′ of arc — square only at 60° latitude.

Click anywhere on the map to read its locator.