Great War Trench Maps :NEW GPS
PRODUCT
NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD Rom:
Please go to new Web Site
http://www.greatwardigital.com
From a technical point of view, this new DVD has taken many hours. From the first few maps kindly lent by a friend in the Western Front Association.
The challange of producing a DVD has been almost as great as the original concept of putting maps on pc in the firstplace. Throughout this project, I have known that this has been a first. I have been privilaged to watch the views of the mapping unfold for the first time, and all along, I have not known quite what the end product would be.
Note: Artillery Barrage in progress
The primary challenge has surprisingly not been the mapping, but the software licensing. There are now a few expensive systems that will display imagery competently, but finding a way of presenting clever solutions with enough flexibility, to issue for the price of a DVD has been a challenge.
The DVD consists of nearly 500 individual maps, each original is aproximately A0 in size. Scanned on the new generation of large format scanning equipment, almost under armed guard due to their value. Modern GIS imaging software, more akin to satelite imagery, has been used to register each map spacially to its neighbours, north, south, east and west, so that the user may travel from one map to another, without the need to reload the image.
The unusual difference between this product, and other forms of technical mapping to which I am more accustomed in the mobile phone industry, is that they are intended as an educational roam, through a marvelous collection of historical documents, a celebration of mapping for the map's sake, not merely a tool used for a different end.