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

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.

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.

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


Imported from GitHub discussion by @TyHol on 2025-03-12T15:41:39Z

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:


Imported from GitHub comment by @SeqLaz on 2025-03-12T16:07:10Z

Ping nirvn


Imported from GitHub comment by @SeqLaz on 2025-03-12T16:07:29Z

Thanks! Done… It’s an honour to give something back at last!


Imported from GitHub comment by @TyHol on 2025-03-12T16:56:31Z

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 by nirvn · Pull Request #6094 · opengisch/QField · GitHub ). 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!


Imported from GitHub comment by @nirvn on 2025-03-13T03:07:55Z

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

I’ve put release packages onto the github sites.


Imported from GitHub comment by @TyHol on 2025-03-13T08:22:02Z