Map sources

Why can't I download some of the maps?

Most of the maps in the TrenchMapper collection have come from the WFA's scanning project in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums and are covered by a formal agreement with the IWM. These can be added to the Shopping Cart and downloaded directly. WFA members get two free downloads per month.
Some Non-IWM maps have been obtained from other sources as listed here. Most of these sources do not allow a 3rd party to supply a download so users are encouraged to obtained such downloads direct from the source.
It is regretted that a few maps cannot be downloaded from TrenchMapper for technical or legal reasons.

A selection of specific sources

Source Map types Map ID starts with
Imperial War Museums All m, ma, md or p
Archives Departementales de la Marne Trench Maps of Marne area fdm
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Maps of Gallipoli nz
Australian War Memorial Maps of Gallipoli awm
Boston Public Library General trench maps bpl
Bundesarchiv Freiburg. See instructions below German trench maps ph
Creative Commons, e.g. Wikipedia Any pd
Landes Bibliothek, The Upper Austrian Federal State Library German Official History maps gohv
Library of Congress General trench maps loc
Library of Congress. Charles Pelot Summerall papers General trench maps loc
McMaster University General trench maps and aerial photographs macrepo
National Library of Israel Maps of Gallipoli pd
North Carolina Digital Collections General trench maps pd
Prussia Online German Official History maps gohv
Tennessee Virtual Archive General trench maps pd
University of Texas at Austin. Perry-Castañeda Library General trench maps tu
University of Texas at Austin. Field Maps of Colonel Roland T. Fenton Maps from records of Colonel Roland T. Fenton fenton
Wellcome Collection General trench maps and aerial photographs wc

Other maps come from private collections

Bundesarchiv Freiburg- Instructions
These do not work in Firefox but do in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. No login is required.

  1. Do not translate
  2. Copy Großer Generalstab und Kommandobehörden des Deutschen Heeres into the search box
  3. In the search results, select PH 3-KART Oberste Heeresleitung / Großer Generalstab und Kommandobehörden des Deutschen Heeres.- Karten
  4. Dismiss the welcome screen
  5. In Klassifikation in lower left panel, under nicht klassifiziert, expand PH 3 - KART Bestandsverzeichnis
  6. Expand 1 PH 3 - KART Oberste Heeresleitung / Großer Generalstab und Kommandobehörden des Deutschen Heeres.- Karten
  7. Select front
  8. Select country
  9. Select area (Sonstige means other or miscellaneous)
  10. When downloading a lot of maps, in the main panel, click Nur mit Digitalisat anzeigen (i.e. Show only digitised items)
  11. To keep track of progress, in the main panel, tick the Archivsignatur box by a map then click Digitalisat anzeigen (opens in new window). Ticking the Archivsignatur box does nothing useful except keeps track of which maps have been downloaded because on return to this screen after a download, the system returns to the top.
  12. Click Download
  13. Select Gesampte AE (JPG) or Seite 1 (JPG) then Download Starten
  14. Close new window on completion. Trying to go too fast causes a Too Many Requests error. Pause a few seconds.

 

 

 

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