Thanks, Dave! However, according to this discussion

http://n2.nabble.com/Open-Source-Solutions-that-handle-MGRS-td2076852.html

neither PROJ.4 nor GDAL support MGRS, since coordinates do not come as a
tuple. I guess I will have to do some coding myself...

Nils

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler@sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hi Nils,
>
> Likely via the spTransform function in the rgdal package.
>
> Dan
>
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 13:40 -0500, Nils B. Weidmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is there a way to convert Military Grid (MGRS) coordinates to lat/long
> > using R's spatial packages? Thanks for any advice you may have!
> >
> > Best
> > Nils
> --
> Dan Putler
> Sauder School of Business
> University of British Columbia
>
>


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