{"id":"6a9c5367cd6f79cedcd7b750","title":"2026 09 05 Issue 385","path":"how-to/committee/release-notes/2026-09-05-issue-385","contentMarkdown":"# 05-Sep-2026 — show a grid reference, postcode or coordinates on the OS map inside NGX instead of linking [#385](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/385)\n\n## [build 878](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/33980719159) — [commit 4b6c844](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/4b6c844a023423b2dc5a687d129c46f680d13f7a)\n\n_____\n\n## What's new\n\nEvery grid reference and postcode on a walk, event or route page used to open a third-party site. There is now a Locate page inside NGX on Ordnance Survey mapping, opened beneath the page you were on with a Back button, and full screen if you want it.\n\n- Grid references are shown the way Ramblers shares them, ten figures with spaces such as TR 08624 17039; Walk View settings can shorten them or drop the spaces\n- A grid reference opens on OS Maps, a postcode in the Google Maps view as before, with the other one switch away; the map can also show OpenStreetMap or an aerial photo with labels\n- A search box takes a grid reference, postcode or place name and keeps what you typed; clicking the map or dragging the marker moves the point, and the place, postcode, grid reference and coordinates update on one line\n- Directions to the point without leaving the page: Google Maps in place of the map, from where you are or from a postcode, and Waze's live map with the point pinned; Apple Maps on iPhone and iPad; a link opens the point in OS Maps\n- The map's height can be dragged and is remembered; everything else about the view is in the address so a link reproduces it\n- Three ways in: a Locate a place footer link on every site, a result at the top of site search for a grid reference or postcode, and a Locate the start row in every walk's Related Links, which also gain Directions rows","contentHtml":"<h1>05-Sep-2026 — show a grid reference, postcode or coordinates on the OS map inside NGX instead of linking <a href=\"https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/385\">#385</a></h1>\n<h2><a href=\"https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/33980719159\">build 878</a> — <a href=\"https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/4b6c844a023423b2dc5a687d129c46f680d13f7a\">commit 4b6c844</a></h2>\n<hr>\n<h2>What&#39;s new</h2>\n<p>Every grid reference and postcode on a walk, event or route page used to open a third-party site. There is now a Locate page inside NGX on Ordnance Survey mapping, opened beneath the page you were on with a Back button, and full screen if you want it.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grid references are shown the way Ramblers shares them, ten figures with spaces such as TR 08624 17039; Walk View settings can shorten them or drop the spaces</li>\n<li>A grid reference opens on OS Maps, a postcode in the Google Maps view as before, with the other one switch away; the map can also show OpenStreetMap or an aerial photo with labels</li>\n<li>A search box takes a grid reference, postcode or place name and keeps what you typed; clicking the map or dragging the marker moves the point, and the place, postcode, grid reference and coordinates update on one line</li>\n<li>Directions to the point without leaving the page: Google Maps in place of the map, from where you are or from a postcode, and Waze&#39;s live map with the point pinned; Apple Maps on iPhone and iPad; a link opens the point in OS Maps</li>\n<li>The map&#39;s height can be dragged and is remembered; everything else about the view is in the address so a link reproduces it</li>\n<li>Three ways in: a Locate a place footer link on every site, a result at the top of site search for a grid reference or postcode, and a Locate the start row in every walk&#39;s Related Links, which also gain Directions rows</li>\n</ul>\n"}