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Using converted WW1 Army Grid Referencing Systems to identify locations where Australian soldiers fell Europe / Rodney Deakin in International journal of cartography, vol 8 n° 3 (November 2022)  

Public [article]  inInternational journal of cartography > vol 8 n° 3 (November 2022) . - pp 308 - 325 Titre : Using converted WW1 Army Grid Referencing Systems to identify locations where Australian soldiers fell Europe Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Rodney Deakin, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 308 - 325 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Projections [Termes IGN] Australie [Termes IGN] carte ancienne [Termes IGN] carte militaire [Termes IGN] carte topographique [Termes IGN] coordonnées géographiques [Termes IGN] Europe (géographie politique) [Termes IGN] Google Maps [Termes IGN] grille [Termes IGN] guerre [Termes IGN] projection conforme [Termes IGN] projection Universal Transverse Mercator [Termes IGN] transformation de coordonnées [Termes IGN] vingtième siècle Résumé : (auteur) Topographic maps (1:40,000) used by the British Army on the Western Front in World War 1 had a five-part Grid Reference System consisting of: (1) Map Number; (2) Letter-Square – 24 letter squaresA to X on each map; (3) Number-Square – 36 (and sometimes 30) 1000-yard squares in each letter square; (4) Minor-Square – four 500-yard squares denoted a, b, c, d in each number square; (5) Small-Square – 10 × 10 = 100 small-squares in a minor-square. Letter and number grid Woesten references (e.g. X: 28.A.6.b.73) cannot be used by modern GPS navigation devices that require geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) or current map grid coordinates. This paper provides the background behind this project and demonstrates a method of transforming WW1 grid references to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid coordinates using Google Maps to obtain geographical coordinates, Geographic to UTM grid conversion and a 2D Conformal transformation. As well, it provides a ‘snapshot’ of practical methods that were used to develop a software package that would allow amateur military historians to convert the WW1 Grid Reference System to contemporary coordinates. Numéro de notice : A2022-748 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1080/23729333.2021.1877890 Date de publication en ligne : 13/05/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2021.1877890 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101734 [article]