Hi guys, This is probably old news for some of you but hopefully this will be helpful to some in researching war diaries. The website link below has a converter for converting military coordinates, (like the ones listed in war diary's) to longitudal and latitude information. Entering this information in Google Earth, I was able to get a pretty good idea where the events were taking place that were described in the War Diary. There is a margin of error but it is better than nothing. The "Coordinates Translator" I used the site to create a bunch of pertinent landmarks when researching a relative. Here is my relative's site I created, the landmarks are listed under Historical Info and Maps. Morris Nelson Pady Hope this isn't too redundant for the forum. Cheers!
Hi guys Have you noticed that in these days the website echodelta doesn't work when you try to translate coordinates? Do you know another coordinates translator website? Cheers
Ummm, I spotted that a few days ago. I hope it returns to functionality as I am in the middle of a project that pretty well relies on it!
Just a word of caution re these 'translators': they can be 'out' by up to a kilometre. That's why, courtesy of eBay, I've gradually built up a collection of period maps for the areas relating to my late fathers experiences in NW Europe (Normandy to the Baltic). More conveniently, most maps from the period can now be downloaded FOC from a number of websites. You just need to be mindful that the grid numbering system was changed a few years post War.
I sent an email to the site owner but I haven't heard back yet. By eyeballing one of the maps it looks like they were done on a kilometre basis? Which makes sense if those countries were on metric and the source of the maps. I.e. If you had position 5555 and 5655 those would apparently be 1km apart in an easterly direction