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Find Places. Search for a Great War location. This seaches a list of over 50,000 points for named locations like Dewdrop Trench. It is best to use as little as possible so in this example, just type Dewdrop. A clickable list is then displayed that contains the string Dewdrop.

Find Maps. Search within georeferenced maps.

Other search options

• Great War Location. This seaches a list of over 50,000 points for named locations like Dewdrop Trench. It is best to use as little as possible so in this example, just type Dewdrop. A clickable list is then displayed that contains the string Dewdrop.
• Trench Map Reference. Use a full or partial map reference. A reference like 28.K.8.c.2.9 is a full reference but partial references like 28.K.8.c will work as will 28.K.8 and 28.K or even just 28. In these cases, TrenchMapper will jump to the centre of the square referred to.
• Georeferenced Map. Presents a clickable list of maps of the named location.
• Full Map catalogue. Searches for a keyword in the map catalogue, e.g. Artillery and presents a clickable list of maps whose metadata contains that string.
• Modern place. Searches for the modern place. A good number of Great War locations are now spelt differently, e.g. Passchendaele now Passendale.
• Map ID. This searches for the map id as given in the metadata for each map in the left panel, e.g. m_001327. (Gheluvelt, Sheet 28 NE 3, 1:10,000)
• Lat Lon. Searches for the WGS84 Latitude and Longitude. Enter the coordinates logitude first separeted with a comma, e.g. 50.848729, 2.917766 to find Hell Fire Corner
• Bonne XY. Great War maps of the Western Front were often based on the Bonne map projection. This allows a search by Boone coordinates, e.g. -43000, -172000.

Advanced Search

Advanced Search in the Main Menu can find keywords in place names like Camp or words in the map description like Barrage. This search is by Place or by Map. For example, to find a list of Barrage maps, in the search box click, choose Map then in Notes type Barrage. In the current map catalogue, this gives 43 maps. To find a list of Camps, search by Place and add Camp in the Comment box.

 

 

 

 

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