> Notes on the Modified British System of coordinates used on the European Theatre of Operations during the WWII
 
 
 
> Links, bibliographical references   (version française)

 

Notes on the geographical systems of coordinates :

   
Coordinate Systems Overview
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/coordsys/coordsys_ftoc.html
   
Grids and Datums (historical notes on the map projections used other the world)
http://www.asprs.org/asprs/resources/grids/
   

Conversions between coordinate systems :
   
Coordinate conversions and transformations including formulas
http://remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/guid7.html
   

Other coordinate systems used during the WWII :
   
The Luftwaffe Map Reference System ('Gradnetzmeldeverfahren')
http://www.stormbirds.com/eagles/research/gradnetz/gradnetz.html
   

Digital atlases :
   
Mapquest (Anglais)
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp
   

Newsgroups :
   
Ordnance Survey maps Group
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ordnancemaps
   
Aéroforums (French)
http://www.aeroforums.org
   

Bibliographical references :
   
Manual of map reading, photo reading and field sketching, The War Office, 1940
Manual of map reading, photo reading and field sketching - part 1, map reading, The War Office, 1955

Thanks :

The author wishes to thank Mr Joël Blanc for his contribution to the reflexion and to some aspects of the documentation relating to the system of coordinates described here.
 

 

 

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