Simple GRG

• This product is for training purposes only. No guarantee is made as to location accuracy or image currency.
• This product provides only the base map and the ability to plot circles/rings. No effort has been expended to create a comprehensive mission-planning system. It is expected that you will do the majority of your work in some other software. We all know the military runs on PowerPoint.
• INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. Create the base-layer image you want, by customizing the field of view, map/imagery layer, and grid parameters, and then adding any desired circles and building numbers. If you don't see a selected grid, zoom in. Hold SHIFT and select an area with your mouse to zoom to an area.
  2. Select the "Hide Controls" option to declutter the image. Shape your browser window to achieve the desired aspect ratio and image size.
  3. Press Alt+PrtScn on your Windows keyboard to copy a screenshot of the window to your clipboard. Paste into Microsoft Publisher or PowerPoint and crop as desired.

Welcome to Simple GRG. Following the demise of Hawg-View, this web page was created to fill a vital gap in military training work-flow: Creating GRGs on the web and pasting them into Power-Point because official software is too cumbersome and too inefficient too much of the time, especially when an unclassified, non-mensurated product is sufficient. All this site will do is allow you to create a "base layer" for your GRG, with grids, grid labels, range rings, and building numbers. After that, paste the screen-shot into Power Point, Publisher, or some other application and add additional symbology as desired.

No guarantee is made as to the accuracy of the imagery provided and grids calculated here, but experimentation has found them to be accurate to within a couple of meters in a wide range of CONUS locations. At least as good as Hawg-View was.

This system will be maintained as long as I care to maintain it, and beyond that I will continue to host it so long as I am able. It is also open-source. All of the code (poorly-written mess that it is) is visible in-line or is available in the referenced open-source packages.

Thanks for visiting. Remember your mission.

--WCC, LT, USN