Ciao Holy Moly, almost two years on from my thread: 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regt - C Squadron > Tracing 1944+ Path To honour my missed Daddy: WO II (SSM) Albert Ward MM, promoted to A/WO I (RSM) (3126699) and the 15th Scottish Recce, I have tried to map 15th Scottish Recce, C Squadron's route from France, Belgium, Holland to Germany A Google Map of approx. route of 15th Scottish Recce, C Squadron Hugest thank you to Recce_Mitch for all his help on my previous thread and posting up the war records The map is a work in progress (I couldn't figure out The "Coordinates Translator") so any help would be hugely appreciated
To take the example in your other post NETTELKAMP 920799. 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regt - C Squadron > Tracing 1944+ Path You first need to have a rough idea of where the location is, in this case Germany will do. In the echodelta site look for the grid covering that area i.e. NORD de GUERRE zone. Now you need to find out which grid it is in, find the location on a modern map and then locate the square. Some diaries give an indication by quoting a letter in front of the map reference, if not it's trial and error. As the echodelta grid shows rivers it is useful to use a map where rivers show up clearly, Bing maps is not bad. In the case the square you are interested in is rX, put that into the co-ordinate translator. That gives you the location. Copy the latitude/longitude into Google maps. At one time you could click on the Mapquest link at the bottom and it would open up the location on a map, for some reason this seems to have stopped working but you can copy and paste the lat/long into Google. You will soon get the hang of it.
V thanks @Tony56 for mega detailed help. I will need REECE map training for that (and a bottle of Cava LOL]. so hard
