Maidenhead geocode system

1 · John Cook · May 30, 2021, 8:07 p.m.
The Maidenhead Locator System encodes a pair of longitude and latitude coordinates in a slightly complicated but ingenious way. Amateur radio operators using this geocoding system to describe locations. The Wikipedia article on the subject describes the what of the system, but I’d like to say more about the why of the system. I’ll also […] The post Maidenhead geocode system first appeared on John D. Cook....