MGRS Cardinal

MGRS Cardinal is a live map for the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). Move the map and read the grid under the crosshair at 6, 8 or 10 digits, instantly.

Built for land navigation, training, search and rescue, cadets, hunting and anyone who works with military grid references.

FREE
• Live MGRS grid under the crosshair, tap to copy
• MGRS grid lines that follow your zoom: 100 km, 10 km, 1 km and 100 m, labelled like a paper map
• Drop pins and read their grid
• Hybrid satellite map (satellite with roads and names)
• Your location on the map

PREMIUM: $9.99 a year, everything included
Navigate and plan
• Search any grid, typed any way, or a latitude/longitude
• Bearings and distances in mils or degrees, from grid, true or magnetic north
• Draw lines, circles, rectangles and areas with live measurements and corner grids; move, rotate and resize them with your finger
• Go to: live bearing and distance to any pin while you walk, with your walked trail and a big walking display whose arrow turns with you
• Mil compass with true and magnetic north (World Magnetic Model), and a map that turns with you
• Light and moon: BMNT, EENT, civil twilight, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and moon illumination for any grid and date
• NATO-style military unit symbols: friendly, hostile, neutral or unknown; infantry, armour, artillery, engineers and more; mechanized or motorized; size from team to division
• 13 military pin types with your own fields
• Red night mode, and every map style: topographic, outdoor, satellite, streets, winter, and roads over satellite

Teams and your maps
• Shared team maps for up to 10 people, live
• Live team positions with call signs (only when you choose to share)
• Team chat with photos and files
• Lock your work so no one moves it
• PDF map overlays: lay a training-area PDF or scanned map over the map, lined up with the grid (GeoPDFs place themselves)
• Import hundreds of grids from Excel
• Save and open KML for Google Earth, ATAK and GIS
• Your maps synced on every device

Your plan works in the app and on mgrscardinal.com with the same account. Send feedback right from the app, and join the community at r/MGRSCardinal.

MGRS Cardinal is an independent app made in Alberta, Canada. It is not affiliated with the Department of National Defence or the Canadian Armed Forces. Do not use it for classified information. Always carry a map and compass.