We Call This "Leverage"

The GeoLibro blog has an interesting thought about the US National Grid and Google.

In a posting titled "Mountan View, CA Now Our Prime Meridian?", the author notes a casual on-line reference to "Google Earth Coords" and muses:

...if the U.S. government is serious about us learning and using the National Grid (USNG), they need to have Google use it for U.S. locations.

Indeed.