GPS reference points

[Segilla]

From a letter about my uncle killed WW1 in 1917:-

He was buried by his comrades at a point N.W. of Havrincourt. The map reference which may be useful to you later is K.15d.95.80.

Does a GPS device use the same system?

[Mosaic]

CWGC website search:
http://www.cwgc.org/s...1&sort=name&order=asc

and
https://maps.google.c...ps?q=50.10408,3.09449

[Segilla]

TKS.
I have twice been Flesquieres where he was reburied in an official cemetery. My question relates to the reference point given in 1918 and whether a modern GPS device uses the same number system.

I couldn't get the second link to work.

[Baldric]

Just looking though, worked for me, appears to show a small graveyard, I think, try this ;

https://maps.google.c...maps?q=50.10408,30449

[Baldric]

The one I gave you doesn't work for me :o(

Mosaics 2nd link worked ok when I tried it

good luck

[ChuckFickens]

No modern GPS systems do not use that format at all, that's a WW1 British army reference.

http://www.1914-1918.net/trench_maps.htm

[Baldric]

SUSSED IT!
If the link won't work,
Bring up Google Maps and put 50.10408,3.09449 in the search box and you're there, works with Bing Maps as well.

[ABerrant]

The grid reference is that used for British trench maps and will most certainly not be a standard map reference of modern GPS devices.

http://www.1914-1918.net/trench_maps.htm

[ABerrant]

Wow, how slow am I?

[Baldric]

The reference actually DOES work on both Google & Bing Maps, just tried it.

[ChuckFickens]

This is the trench map that reference is on...

http://lt1.mcmaster.c...d=57c&map_id=215&view

[ChuckFickens]

The reference "K.15d.95.80" (even when properly formatted without the first full stop) doesn't work on either bing maps or google maps for me.

[ABerrant]

By eye, I place the reference point around here...

http://goo.gl/maps/Cxvgh

[ChuckFickens]

I agree with AP on this (I guessed a tiny bit to the left of there) but it's not easy seeing as the local features have changed a fair bit.

[ChuckFickens]

AP???

AB even!

[Baldric]

Chuck, try the ref; in my 14:01 post

50.10408,3.09449

working for me

[ChuckFickens]

Ah right, I thought you meant the original reference worked.

I think yours is a fair bit off, if you check the original reference against the trench map from WW1 I posted a link to then the OPs reference comes out a bit north Havrincourt, roughly in the field that ABerrent posted a link to.

[Mosaic]

If you read the info in the CWGC link, it explains that the cemetery is on the road leading out from Havrincourt. On the google maps link, there is the usual uninformative red 'balloon' for the place name but if you look around you will see a green arrow pointing directly to the tiny cemetery.
I don't understand how this is difficult.

[Baldric]

Leave the village on the Rue de Ribecourt going South, there is a sharp Left hand bend, you're now going East, there's a Right hand turning after approx 200/250mts heading SSE, go to the Y shaped junction and turn left, go around the right hand bend is a no through road on the right, the G/yard is at the end of it.

[ABerrant]

Segilla is not searching for Lowrie Cemetery but the place of burial (by comrades, not in a cemetery) before being reinterred at Flesquieres.

[ABerrant]

BTW Grand Ravine British Cemetery, to which many seem to be directing us, is not NW of Havrincourt as originally stated