New Plugin for adding Irish grid and UK grid to search bar. Another to convert between IG UKG & lat long.

[TyHol]

If anyone might find the following useful I've put together 2 plugins:
The inital releases are available on the github pages..

Grid_Searchbar :
Adds ability to search for and navigate to Irish grid or UK grid locations in the searchbar. Will give also give appropriate lat long as both Decimal Degrees and Degrees + Decimal Minutes, along with an option to digitize point at location.
https://github.com/TyHol/Qfield_search_Irish_UK_Grid.git

Convert_Coords_IRE_UK_Grids:
Qfield Plugin to convert between coordinates: gps, canvas, Irish Grid, UK Grid, custom1 (default=screen CRS) and custom2 (default = WGS84). Will show and convert screen centre coordinates, current GPS coordinates or manually inputted coordinates. Will create a point at location. Will pan or (on long press) zoom. Will navigate inside Qfield or (on long press) in google maps. Has a few customisable settings.
Also adds ability to search for and navigate to Irish grid or UK grid locations in the searchbar. Will give also give appropriate lat long as both Decimal Degrees and Degrees + Decimal Minutes, along with an option to digitize point at location.
https://github.com/TyHol/Qfield_Convert_Coords.git

The second one does everything the first one does, but has an extra dialogue for doing more stuff.

I can't guarantee they're perfect but they seem to work on my pc and android.

Thanks,
Tony

[SeqLaz]

Hi @TyHol,

Wow, and thanks for these great contributions to the QField community and ecosystem.

To make it more accessible to more people, could you try adding the qfield-plugin to the Topics in the About section of your repositories? This way, they will be listed on the following page: qfield-plugin

This to both repositories:

https://github.com/TyHol/Qfield_Convert_Coords
https://github.com/TyHol/Qfield_search_Irish_UK_Grid

[SeqLaz]

Ping @nirvn

[TyHol]

Thanks! Done... It's an honour to give something back at last!

[nirvn]

@TyHol , that's great, thanks for sharing! A few more suggestions on top of what @SeqLaz already mentioned:

• I would add a screenshot for each of your plugins in their repositories' README.md, that will be a nice addition.

• If possible, I'd suggest for you to do a release package; on that front, I noticed the ZIP file you are offering are not following the required file pattern: plugin archives should not have a root folder within which your main.qml, metadata.txt, etc. file are stored. Instead, these should be at the root of the archive itself. I just realized this is not the way QGIS does it, and I've tweaked the code so that QField will tolerate this in the future ( A bit of plugins polishing #6094 ). However, in the meantime, for other users to enjoy your work, you should update your ZIP archive to look like this:

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us and the broader community!

[TyHol]

@nirvn Thanks for the feed back (and all your great work...)

I've put release packages onto the github sites.