Broadsword56 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 My buddy Tom in The Netherlands at battledetective.com makes these suggestions for finding WWII aerial photos of the Market-Garden battle areas: ------ Aerial photos are sold in Holland by the government and can be ordered here: http://www.dotkadata.com/en/node/946 They cost € 46 per photo. Now, that's the official story. But a simple Google search gave me this website with photos of Nijmegen in 1944: http://mwn-luchtfoto.blogspot.nl/ And for Eindhoven: http://www.eindhoven-in-beeld.nl/years.asp?id=1944 And this one is the best: http://watwaswaar.nl/ It shows a reference map of Holland and when you zoom in on locations you can see the flight paths of photo recon sorties. Click on the images and you can enlarge the aerial photos. It helps when you understand Dutch but you must be able to find suitable photos. And on the homepage is an explanation in English. In short: The Nijmegen area: http://watwaswaar.nl/#cC-Om-5-1-1v-1 The Eindhoven area: http://watwaswaar.nl/#X2-ES-4-1-1v-1 ------- And here's a .&linkText=Back+to+bibliographic+information]US site you'll definitely want to use for 1:25,000 scale official maps -- showing every dike, fenceline, building, etc. (You should find and download/install an image viewer/converter, like irfanview, that can handle jpeg2000 image format and convert to regular jpg format. Then you'll be able to edit and use them as Google Earth overlays, or turn them into bmp format for your CMBN editor overlays.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Super collection of links. Thanks BS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 drool man I need a waterproof (or maybe droolproof) keyboard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 drool man I need a waterproof (or maybe droolproof) keyboard. ...and Fallschirmjaeger, of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 Any Dutch speakers on the forum: If you can look at the "watwaswaar" site and explain a bit more to us in English about how to use the interface, that would be fantastic. I'm learning how to nativate it slowly, by trial-and-error, but I know I'm missing a lot of its capabilities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Google translate might speed that up a bit if you haven't already tried it. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dowly Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Any Dutch speakers on the forum: If you can look at the "watwaswaar" site and explain a bit more to us in English about how to use the interface, that would be fantastic. I'm learning how to nativate it slowly, by trial-and-error, but I know I'm missing a lot of its capabilities. Hey Broadsword56, It had me scratching my head for a bit too, but for WWII aerial photos, follow this link: http://watwaswaar.nl/#---ea-1v-1 Hope this helps! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrus58 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I was looking to try and find details of the father of a friend who had fought with the Paras at Arnhem when I stumbled across this site: http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/main.htm I have no idea whether it is of any use, etc, but thought someone might want to have a look 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Great find Broadsword, Has anyone figured out how to download an entire aerial photo yet? All I can seem to do is right click and save the image, but all this gives you is the current view at whatever zoom you've got it at. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Great find Broadsword, Has anyone figured out how to download an entire aerial photo yet? All I can seem to do is right click and save the image, but all this gives you is the current view at whatever zoom you've got it at. I don't know the answer (how to download), but can't you just save the image as you have done, then open it in an image editor (like gimp or Photoshop) and resize/crop/edit/change image format however you need to? Granted, you'll lose resolution with a big blowup, but for overlay purposes I would think you'd still be good to go as far as outlines of roads, fields, buildings, etc, to get your map laid out properly. Have you tried that, or does the aerial photo get too blurry to use? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I can zoom in the photo and save the image at the desired scale sort of like taking a screen shot. However, it just seemed strange that there's no way to download the entire aerial photo at it's full resolution. I'll have to save several zoomed in screen shots and then piece them back together in GIMP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PvtW Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Any Dutch speakers on the forum: If you can look at the "watwaswaar" site and explain a bit more to us in English about how to use the interface, that would be fantastic. I'm learning how to nativate it slowly, by trial-and-error, but I know I'm missing a lot of its capabilities. It is currently not possible to download maps from the website. How to use it: Type the name of the city you want the map from, in the pink searchfield. In the green searchfield you can find what kind of map you want. For example ww2 maps, aerial photographs, topographical military maps For aerial photographs, choose "luchtfoto's" In the blue searchfield you can specify the period you want the map from. Then click on the overview map in the area you want a map from. If you zoom in to much, you can get few or no results at all. So if you get no results try to zoom out until you see the available maps appear. The maps available are shown in the right. Just click on the map you want. Hope this helps. If anyone has questions about this site or other in dutch. Just ask. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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