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OS grid reference
grid location reference from the Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system used in Great Britain

Description	A grid location reference from the Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system used in Great Britain, explained here Ordnance Survey National Grid.
Represents	Ordnance Survey National Grid (Q1967305)
Data type	String
Template parameter	Is used in some infoboxes, for example: Bodiam Castle.
Domain	According to this template: places in Great Britain According to statements in the property: geographic location (Q2221906), architectural structure (Q811979) or geographical feature (Q618123) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	[A-Z]{2}\s?[0-9]{1,5}\s?[0-9]{1,5}
Example	Bodiam Castle (Q639208) → TQ7855025649 Church of St Peter, Charney Bassett (Q17529165) → SU3810294427
Source	Ordnance Survey maps are the original sources (note: this information should be moved to a property statement; use property source website for the property (P1896))
Formatter URL	http://nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi?p=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	DeltaBot does the following jobs: Add new claim P17:Q145
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P613 (Q113579767)
Related to country	United Kingdom (Q145) (See 329 others)
See also	Irish Grid Reference (P4091)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Database reports/Constraint violations/P613 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 718,789 Main statement 510,879 71.1% of uses Qualifier 203,518 28.3% of uses Reference 4,392 0.6% of uses
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Format “[A-Z]{2}\s?[0-9]{1,5}\s?[0-9]{1,5}”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P613#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Single best value: this property generally contains a single value. If there are several, one would have preferred rank (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Plas Meilw Hut Circles (Q25726897), Llanddona Standing Stone (Q26111106)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P613#single best value, SPARQL

Item “country (P17): United Kingdom (Q145), Kingdom of England (Q179876), Isle of Man (Q9676), Guernsey (Q25230)”: Items with this property should also have “country (P17): United Kingdom (Q145), Kingdom of England (Q179876), Isle of Man (Q9676), Guernsey (Q25230)”. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P613#Item P17, hourly updated report, search

Type “geographic location (Q2221906), architectural structure (Q811979), geographical feature (Q618123)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “geographic location (Q2221906), architectural structure (Q811979), geographical feature (Q618123)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P613#Type Q2221906, Q811979, Q618123, SPARQL

This property is being used by: eu:Txantiloi:Galesko udalerri infotaula automatikoa, eu:Txantiloi:Kornuallesko udalerri infotaula automatikoa, eu:Txantiloi:Man uharteko udalerri infotaula automatikoa, eu:Txantiloi:Scilly uharteetako udalerri infotaula automatikoa tt:Калып:ДәүләтВМ ang:Bysen:Cyþþubox Bretta tun Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Converter service to forward to Geohack

The previous converter service, which turned the grid references into WGS 84 latitudes and longitudes, which it passed on to GeoHack, has been down since the demise of the ToolServer.

The template on en-wiki that used to call the converter, en:Template:Ordnance Survey coordinates, has now been re-written so that the conversion is done on-wiki in a Lua module, en:Module:Ordnance_Survey_coordinates, with the advantage that the template now generates a link that visibly points to GeoHack.

This doesn't help us on Wikidata though, where we need to be able to send the string as part of a URL to a webservice. It shouldn't be too hard to get the old code up and running again (oe to replace it with new code - there are many libraries for this on the net); but it would require somebody to maintain it, and restart it if the server falls over. I have asked at en:Talk:Template:Ordnance Survey coordinates, but no positive response as yet. Jheald (talk) 22:39, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

As this has been a problem for a long time, with nobody seeming to be able to help, I've swapped out the formatter URL for nearby.org.uk. It's not forwarding to Geohack as desired, but it's a whole lot better than an error page. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Assigning grid references to buildings

Saltwood Castle (Q402419) has a warning because as a castle (Q23413) its not a geographic location (Q2221906). I suggest this restriction is relaxed to include architectural structure (Q811979) to include buildings, dams etc, which clearly do have grid references. Vicarage (talk) 13:28, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Done Vicarage (talk) 18:42, 16 August 2023 (UTC)