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Add GARS (Global Area Reference System)

Open 132ndNeck opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Would it be possible to add GARS to show together with the coordinates?

Rationale: GARS covers the whole world, and thus should work good for new maps in DCS. The reason to use GARS is to have a killbox system, where we may have intelligence that enemy forces are located, then a flight can be tasked to a GARS box instead of a certain grid and have a AR mission there. Furthermore it can be used to deconflict airspace between airspace users.

Simply it is a way of changing the 132nd killbox system into a system that would work over all new maps.

Information on GARS can be found here: http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/coordsys/grids/gars.html

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Area_Reference_System

132ndNeck avatar Feb 24 '17 10:02 132ndNeck

Question: Is this a system similar to the MGRS?

Should be easy enough to add as a layer to the map. I need to do some prototyping in order to see how best to adapt the displayed information in relation to the zoom level.

Note to self: Add the different degrees of detail to individual layers layered on-top of eachother. Mute layers based on zoom level.

jkhoel avatar Mar 01 '17 11:03 jkhoel