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Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. Browse the maps: As individual sheets using a zoomable map. As zoomable overlays of each map on a modern satellite or map layer. By map series and sheet lists. See also: Guide to symbols – a zoomable trench map legend. Further information:
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Trenches corrected to 22 December 1917 / 1 January 1918:...
- National Library of Scotland
It also includes a searchable gazetteer of trench names, and...
- Military Maps
Maps made specifically for military purposes, showing...
- Visiting Us
The Maps Reading Room is available to library card holders...
- By Map Series and Sheet Lists
28 mar 2022 · The Western Front Association is delighted to announce the launch of a large Great War mapping project. 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 mode...
1:20,000 trench map showing British (blue) and German (red) trenches just east of Arras, revised to 4 March 1917. Trench maps are a primary source for studying the major battlefields of the Great War.
A Guide to Trench Maps. The four years of relatively static warfare in Belgium and France, from late 1914 to the end of the First World War, entailed the excavation of thousands of miles of trenches and static fortifications.
On the battlefield, cartographers were churning out maps of the trenches almost daily. At home, maps were being used to rally the home front in Europe and to try to convince the United States to join the Entente powers. Immediately after the war, maps were used to help decide how to redefine Europe.”
‘GeoPortOst: Thematic and Hidden Maps of Eastern and Southeastern Europe’ (more than 3000 enlargeable maps, 16th-19 century; ‘GeoPortOst synthesizes maps, spatial data, and semantic context within a new spatial information system’; also a ‘Catalog of Hidden Maps’ (more than 30,000 entries - Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast ...
It also includes a searchable gazetteer of trench names, and related resources and information. 'The Great War, 1914-1918' has an excellent guide explaining why the British Army required the Trench Maps at this scale, how the map reference system was devised and how to find a location using a trench map reference.
