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One-kilometer artillery grid on a French trench map, Moreuil, 5 Aug 1918 | |
Service Géographique de l’Armée Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Universal Transverse Mercator grid on a US topographic map, Solomons Island, 1987 | |
US Geological Survey Public Domain: US government | |
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Detail from the French carte de l’État major, 1885 | |
Dépôt de la Guerre Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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The Bonne projection used for the carte de l’État major, extended to show the entire world | |
William Rankin Creative Commons BY-NC-SA | |
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Sheet corner from Cassini's Carte de France, Verdun, 1760 | |
César-François Cassini de Thury Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Index sheet from Cassini's Carte de France, 1797 | |
César-François Cassini de Thury Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Grid junctions on a German trench Map, Bourlon, 18 Sep 1918 | |
reproduced in Oskar Albrecht, Das Kriegsvermessungswesen während des Weltkrieges 1914–18 (München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969) Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Deployment of the French système Lambert map grid along the western front | |
William Rankin Creative Commons BY-NC-SA | |
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The Lambert projection used for the système Lambert, extended to show the entire world | |
William Rankin Creative Commons BY-NC-SA | |
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Page from a French trig list, April 1917, giving grid coordinates | |
Service Géographique de l’Armée; reproduced in Peter Chasseaud, Artillery’s Astrologers: A History of British Survey & Mapping on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Lewes: Mapbooks, 1999), 514 Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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British surveyors measuring a captured German trig beacon during World War I | |
from H. Winterbotham, “Geographical Work with the Army in France,” The Geographical Journal 54 (July 1919), 13 Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Textbook demonstration of how to plot a target on a plotting board | |
from Manual for the Artillery Orientation Officer [translated from French original] (Washington DC: USGPO, 1917), 100 Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Zones of the US State Plane Coordinate System, with a separate grid system for each zone | |
Surveying and Mapping Copyright 1967 | |
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Survey monument in Mt. Vernon, Texas, placed in 1934 | |
QuesterMark Creative Commons BY-SA | |
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Henri Roussilhe’s scheme for an international grid system, 1922 | |
from H. Roussilhe, “Emploi des coordonnées rectangulaires stéréographiques pour le calcul de la triangulation dans un rayon de 560 kilomètres autour de l’origine,” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 1 (Paris, 1923 [presented 1922]); shading added Public Domain: copyright expired | |
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Historical values for the size and shape of the earth download data in a spreadsheet | |
William Rankin Creative Commons BY-NC-SA | |
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The junction of the French and Belgian national triangulations as of 1920 | |
William Rankin Creative Commons BY-NC-SA | |
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The use of computationally efficient “Bowie Loops” in the western United States | |
from Oscar Adams, The Bowie Method of Triangulation Adjustment, US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 159 (Washington, DC: USGPO, 1930), 10; shading added Public Domain: US government | |
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Schematic plan for the recalculation of the European triangulation network, 1939 | |
Bulletin géodésique Copyright 1939 | |
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Pierre Tardi's plan for a grid system for Africa, 1936 | |
Bulletin géodésique Copyright 1938 | |
continue to chapter 4 . . . |