tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post4832544329420547278..comments2023-09-23T05:22:49.608-07:00Comments on Peter Chasseaud: Landscape, Air Photos, Trench Maps: ARTILLERY'S ASTROLOGERS: Maps, Survey, Sound Ranging, Flash Spotting in WW1peter chasseaudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05076289127662441267noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post-26929603523005358792022-03-28T10:37:08.917-07:002022-03-28T10:37:08.917-07:00Hello Peter
We spoke several times at BCS HMMG mee...Hello Peter<br />We spoke several times at BCS HMMG meetings during which you were kind enough to help me on various aspects of Great War trench maps.<br />Starting in 2005, I set out to scan the whole IWM Great War map collection. Only building works at the museum stopped this but over 95% of the collection was scanned. That took 4 years along with cataloguing all the maps and a few associated documents.<br />As a result of that, the Western Front Association is delighted to announce the launch of a large Great War mapping project. https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/trenchmapper-public/<br />The new website is free to use and displays British, French and German trench maps, aerial photographs, maps from the official history, hand drawn maps and others all georeferenced against modern mapping. The main emphasis is on the Western Front and Gallipoli but there are also UK maps of the period.<br />Users can employ a name search to find trenches, maps, photographs, villages, camps etc. and to see what these places look like now with Street View. They can even explore inside key buildings and tunnels. <br />A tool is provided to enter a Great War map reference and display that point as a modern coordinate suitable for use in GPS. Other tools measure distance and bearing, change the modern mapping background or display the current street address.<br />The site launched on 28th March 2022 with more than 1,100 maps but in the future that number is planned to reach approximately 7,000. This is a phased launch of the website, developments will include more maps, 3D maps of selected areas and other map types. We are also investigating other advanced features such as GPS integration.<br />The maps can be downloaded for a very modest fee, WFA members get two free maps a month and are able to zoom in further for more detail.<br />The site will be of use to people researching their family history, military historians and those who simply wish to remember.<br />We actively seek collaboration with any organisation that may be able to participate in this project by sharing Great War maps or aerial photographs of any battle front.<br />The site has a set of help files, at the start of one of then I quoted the opening sentences from Artillery's Astrologers and encouraged readers to seek your excellent book for a full explanation of the history of Great War mapping.<br />I trust this will be of interest and thank you for the help you gave me whilst I was a member of the BCS.<br />Regards<br /><br />Howard Anderson<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699875296967982345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post-52096379204352463572017-08-15T00:19:06.161-07:002017-08-15T00:19:06.161-07:00I think the site is good for customer satisfaction...I think the site is good for customer satisfaction. One of my friends said your site better is other websites...<a href="http://www.ncppresschandigarh.com" rel="nofollow">Read More....</a>dheerajkguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916215511302293666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post-82657734133411689292015-07-24T00:28:24.582-07:002015-07-24T00:28:24.582-07:00Dear Dr Chasseaud,
I hope you are well. I didn...Dear Dr Chasseaud,<br /><br />I hope you are well. I didn't have a natural ability for economics when you taught me at Brighton College in 1992 but it was around the time of you publishing your book. My family have recently come across a number of documents of my Great Grandfather including his hand drawn trench maps from 1918. My nephew is possibly going to piece together all of his documents which form an amazing story of his surviving a bullet to the heart (which was still in him when he died aged 89) and his imprisonment as a POW.<br /><br />If you are interested please drop me an email: andrew@simplysav.co.uk<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Andrew GresswellAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636691649160707588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post-79856900731732281162015-03-21T02:02:28.531-07:002015-03-21T02:02:28.531-07:00Dear Dr Chasseaud
Where is your Mapping blog? I wa...Dear Dr Chasseaud<br />Where is your Mapping blog? I was given this book for Christmas and in tune with all the other things I have to do have just started reading it. It will become a great companion piece for my "factional" work remembering the students of Douai School! I found chapter one most enlightening as a summary of the events in the |Balkans through the 19th century - it has filled in may gaps in my education so thank you.Gordon Walker - Bertie Howard's Warhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405825276543889968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425614950511241877.post-14987522602403551482014-01-16T22:53:44.012-08:002014-01-16T22:53:44.012-08:00Dear Peter (if I may), I am trying to contact you ...Dear Peter (if I may), I am trying to contact you to ask you if you would be interested in writing a few pages for our British Studies Journal special issue on the Forst World War. If you could let me have your email that would be very helpful indeed/ Thank you for your time. Dr John Mullen, Université Paris Est, john.mullen@wanadoo.fr John Mullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04936937247932651511noreply@blogger.com