I just received a great email from forumite BraunstonBruce. We has compiled a great list of WWI & WWII cemeteries for gps systems and requested I share it with the rest of you Rogues. Below is the content of his email, the attached zip file is attached to this post.

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War_Cemeteries.zip (38.9 KB, 8 views)

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Thanks, Otto!
1099 Cemeteries !!

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anything on English, German cemeteries I wonder ?

Outstanding work, Bruce. That must have taken a while to do, a labor of love, I must guess.

Erich I saw mucho British Cemeteries, didn't see anything overtly labeled German or Deutsch. Anybody else more knowledgeable than I look at it?

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Many thanks Slipdigit,

They took me about a year to bring to this standard. I've been releasing them from time to time as I worked. Each cemetery had to be identified by reference to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission :: CWGC ::website and Google Earth and also Geoportail for the French Cemeteries. I've attempted where possible to plot the actual gates of the cemetery or if that was not useful then the nearest point you can get to it by car. Many of the cemeteries are in the middle of fields with no roads. Some are in the middle of housing estates completely surrounded by houses. I plotted the biggest ones first and have worked down to the ones with 65 CWGC burials. There are some included which have less.

I would like to plot them all eventually but the smaller they get the harder it is. Luckily GE is getting better all the time.

I looked at plotting UK cemeteries but it is a tremendous task with the vast majority of burials in churchyards all over the country. No really big ones like in France.

Its amazingly difficult to spot chuches on GE when the tower or spire is pointing straight up at you!

cheers all

Bruce

Dear Bruce: Its a very valuable job!
Many thanks for share it!

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U-Historia, Ubootwaffe 1939-1945 History of UBootwaffe in Spanish
http://www.tradiweb.com/ta.htm Translator Web
http://www.forospyware.com In Spanish

Hi Again,
Attached is an update to the War Cemeteries file. Note the renaming of the file to War_Cemeteries (with the underscore). The zip file contains 3 files. An ov2, bmp and a Garmin csv file. The ov2 and bmp file are for TomTom GPS units and should be placed in the appropriate map directory on the unit.

This is also available from TomTom themselves via the TomTom HOME utility.

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War_Cemeteries.zip (43.9 KB, 6 views)

Excellent piece of work - I am sure people over at Otto's World War 2 Talk would love to see this, too. Any chance of posting it there as well?

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Nice work. It's a titanic task! There are many more in France, some with only one grave. One of these days I may buy a Tomtom and get a few records for you here and there.

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