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Lillle Ghent, Fenton, 1:250000

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Title
Lillle Ghent, Fenton, 1:250000
Creation Date
1943
Publication Date
1943
Edition
Second edition, Army/Air
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
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Issue
Abstract
Scale: 1:250000; Map Type: lcgft; Other Descriptive Notes about Map Series: Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints. Three classes of railways and five classes of roads are shown. Covers area north from Flushing (Vlissingen),Netherlands to Valanciennes, France to the south, and west from Quesques, France to Brussels to the east. Lille roughly just below center of sheet. Ghent roughly at center right portion of sheet. Sheet 2, Lille-Ghent from set covering most of the Low Countries and northeastern France. Set includes various issues of some sheets, some reissued by U.S. Army Map Service. Some sheets have series designation A.M.S. M503 (G.S.G.S. 4042). Military grid. "British Modified Grid. Projection, Cassini. Spheroid, Airy. ... Nord de Guerre Zone Grid. Projection, Lambert Conical Orthomorphic. Spheroid, DuPlessis (reconstituted).". "Heights in metres.". "Contour interval 50 metres.". Cataloging agency's copy overprinted with 1 dashed blue diagonal line extending south/northeast from roughly E 2°48ʹ/N 50°20ʹ to E3°0ʹ/N 51°27ʹ with designation: 8°30ʹ W (June 1943). IXA. Cataloging agency's copy overprinted with 1 solid blue diagonal line extending south/northeast from roughly E 3°43ʹ/N 50°20ʹ to E 3°55ʹ/N 51°27ʹ with designation: 8° W (June 1943). IXA. Includes Conversion table, convergence diagram, Index of grid letters and index to adjoining sheets, Reliability diagram, and To give a grid reference on this sheet. "50,000/12/43 E.".
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Supplemental Information
Texas
Bounding Box
West
1.70747
East
4.82455
North
51.549
South
50.09297
ISO Topic Category
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Place Keyword
British Isles, Ardennes, North European Plain, Nord, France, West Flanders, Belgium, Hainaut, Namur, Zeeland, Netherlands, East Flanders, Noord-Brabant, Antwerp, Brussels, Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant, Somme, Pas-de-Calais
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Temporal Keyword
1943
Theme Keyword
Scanned maps
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Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
Public
Language
eng
Credit
Great Britain, War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section,

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This data comes from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection and is part of the cc collection.

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Raster Dataset

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Metadata Date Stamp
2019-03-15
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
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utf8
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