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I don&#39;t know if I am allowed to appeal or not so here goes anyway.
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1. Many people don&#39;t know what the NATO grid is. True Many People don&#39;t
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know what OpenStreetMaps is but Google Maps knows what MGRS is (the NATO
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destination for US Army)
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2. Map editing seems like it would be easier to me if the coordinate system
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were easier to use, or maybe More than 1 of them? (again Google thinks so
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and according to your help files aren&#39;t you guys sort of competing with
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Google?)
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3. Here in the States I think it is Subversive because because near as I
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can tell Trump thinks just saying anything about NATO is Subversive (but I
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may be wrong)
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Is this enough to get this reopened? If not please inform me what would be?
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(I am a retired GIS person who converted all my point files to MGRS for
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ease of use, but just like OpenStreetMaps so far the people that published
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my maps were also uninterested in adding other coordinate systems. Even
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though the US National Grid (the civilian form of the MGRS, but they use
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the same coordinates) is used by many US agencies...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Grid
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I admit I like maps with Grids and the NATO one is the most common doesn&#39;t
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that count?
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(in fact I have heard some people say if it doesn&#39;t have a grid it is not a
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map) doesn&#39;t that sort of make sense?
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From: Tom Hughes ***@***.***&gt;
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Date: Mon, May 5, 2025, 12:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Please add NATO
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coordinates, Here is why. (Issue #5984)
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To: openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website &lt;
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Cc: LeeWellsUU ***@***.***&gt;, Author ***@***.***&gt;
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Closed #5984
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&lt;https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/5984&gt; as
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