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From the Georgia Battlefield Association in their most recent Newsletter (June 2017).....
Battlefield mapping app for smart phones or tablets
Georgia Tech professor Bill Drummond, who has been working on Geographic Information
System (GIS) battlefield mapping for 20 years, has linked his Atlanta Civil War fortification
maps to a free program called Avenza Maps. Here are the directions:
1. Install free Avenza Maps app from the applicable (Apple or Android) app store.
2. Allow the app to access your position and any other needed permission.
3. Open the app and close any window requesting sign in or registration.
4. Click on a plus (on Android, this is within an orange circle).
5. Click on “Download or import a map.”
6. Click on “Tap to enter a URL of a map.”
7. Enter one of the following URLs
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/atl1875.pdf
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/gt1875.pdf
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/gtmodern.pdf
8. The app will download and format the map.
9. Click on the newly imported map.
Your GPS position will display as a blue circle if you are currently within the map area.
www.georgiabattlefields.org
Battlefield mapping app for smart phones or tablets
Georgia Tech professor Bill Drummond, who has been working on Geographic Information
System (GIS) battlefield mapping for 20 years, has linked his Atlanta Civil War fortification
maps to a free program called Avenza Maps. Here are the directions:
1. Install free Avenza Maps app from the applicable (Apple or Android) app store.
2. Allow the app to access your position and any other needed permission.
3. Open the app and close any window requesting sign in or registration.
4. Click on a plus (on Android, this is within an orange circle).
5. Click on “Download or import a map.”
6. Click on “Tap to enter a URL of a map.”
7. Enter one of the following URLs
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/atl1875.pdf
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/gt1875.pdf
www.prism.gatech.edu/~wd4/gtmodern.pdf
8. The app will download and format the map.
9. Click on the newly imported map.
Your GPS position will display as a blue circle if you are currently within the map area.
www.georgiabattlefields.org
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