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FIGURE 3.1
One-kilometer artillery grid on a French trench map, Moreuil, 5 Aug 1918
Service Géographique de l’Armée
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FIGURE 3.2
Universal Transverse Mercator grid on a US topographic map, Solomons Island, 1987
US Geological Survey
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FIGURE 3.3
Detail from the French carte de l’État major, 1885
Dépôt de la Guerre
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FIGURE 3.4
The Bonne projection used for the carte de l’État major, extended to show the entire world
William Rankin
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FIGURE 3.5
Sheet corner from Cassini's Carte de France, Verdun, 1760
César-François Cassini de Thury
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FIGURE 3.6
Index sheet from Cassini's Carte de France, 1797
César-François Cassini de Thury
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FIGURE 3.7
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)
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FIGURE 3.8
Deployment of the French système Lambert map grid along the western front
William Rankin
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FIGURE 3.9
The Lambert projection used for the système Lambert, extended to show the entire world
William Rankin
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FIGURE 3.10
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
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FIGURE 3.11
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
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FIGURE 3.12
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
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FIGURE 3.13
Zones of the US State Plane Coordinate System, with a separate grid system for each zone
Surveying and Mapping
Copyright 1967


 
FIGURE 3.14
Survey monument in Mt. Vernon, Texas, placed in 1934
QuesterMark
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FIGURE 3.15
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
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FIGURE 3.16
Historical values for the size and shape of the earth

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 3.17
The junction of the French and Belgian national triangulations as of 1920
William Rankin
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FIGURE 3.18
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


 
FIGURE 3.19
Schematic plan for the recalculation of the European triangulation network, 1939
Bulletin géodésique
Copyright 1939


 
FIGURE 3.20
Pierre Tardi's plan for a grid system for Africa, 1936
Bulletin géodésique
Copyright 1938


 
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