Hi, I was a bit limited with time so in the end used an online service with an API which is great for the limited number of look-ups I needed. It can be found at:
http://www.nearby.org.uk/ It was also very useful for site for other conversions and lookups. I manage to find a couple of other examples in other languages which I might have used as the basis for some pythonification. PHP - http://www.megalithia.com/search/llfuncshighlight.php - http://www.jstott.me.uk/phpcoord/ Javascript - http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-gridref.html Cheers Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
