Kriegsmarine map system

[U-5000]

Just wanted to know if we will have the Kriegsmarine map system in sh5 like what we had in sh3. Map doesn't look as good to me as the whole map view we had in sh3. Hope we have this if we play campaigns with other players so we know what sectors we are ordered to go in game of sh5. Please Devs I hope you have this in game!

The Grid system

The Kriegsmarine (WWII German Navy) employed a very simple yet clever system for quickly locating, reporting and most importantly vectoring its vessels (surface ships and U-boats). This was the so called Grid system. On this page you can see how it was designed and used.
http://uboat.net/maps/images/grid_ae.gif
Close up of Grid AE
In the example above Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, is located in square AE 48 (the tiny red dot).
http://uboat.net/maps/images/grid_quad_41.gif Left: Quadrant 56
Each smaller grid within the main quadrants (like the "56" inside AE) was then further broken down into smaller elements to enable the Kriegsmarine to use designations like AE 5619 (shaded grid).
Reykjavík, in the map above, is located in grid AE 4874.
The entire world was mapped like that, including areas that never saw any Kriegsmarine operations.


http://uboat.net/maps/images/grid_atlantic.gif
The Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean shown in grid codes.

The Maps (http://uboat.net/maps/index.html)

[Jan Kyster]

Your samples are not true KM-maps.
Uploading my collection right now, ~165MB, and will provide the link once finished. Or try a google...



But yes, KM-maps are used in SHV! :rock:

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/KMmap.jpg

...but only until you click it. :D


/edit: link for uploaded KM-maps http://www.mediafire.com/?lmmwmzvwgh4

[urfisch]

by the way...i have a unique, nice reprint of a 3401 hq scan...just click my banner...

;)

:up:

[Sailor Steve]

Actually the KM grids in SH4 are much better. They focus all the way down to the 4-digit locations, and also include the latitude and longitude coordinates.:sunny:

[Frederf]

That bugged me in SH3/GWX... you had KM grids but you didn't have lat/long too. Can you see both (toggle?) in SH5?

[kartengruppe]

hi,
I'm a new user and I didn't write as a player but only as a collector.

I meet some time ago the owner of the MQK-3401 on another forum and on ebay and I tell him that his map wasn't original.

So, as a collector, I think I am a expert of kriegsmarine's map. You can see my different "admiralitats karten" on my site http://www.kartengruppe.it or, only one, in this other subsim post.
(http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=163133&highlight=kriegsmarine+original+map)
I have, also, 2 original gridsmap. My maps aren't on the rar pack that you can find on sharing servers. An exemple you can see on an article of german-navy.de (http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/articles/feature6.html) who I have send an image.

One of this is

http://www.kartengruppe.it/immagini/okm/1864G-nb_small.jpg (http://www.kartengruppe.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=57)


Nr. 1864G - Quadratkarte
N-Blatt - DIE NORDSEE
1:600.000, 1940 (su modello 1937), 86 x 139 cm
Note: Mappa retro prestampato con titolo e timbro tondo “Kriegsmarinewerft Kiel Kartengruppe”
Altro: Riporta tra l'altro le isole Orcadi con la rada di Scapa Flow (foto1 - (http://www.kartengruppe.it/immagini/okm/1864G-nb.jpg)foto2 (http://www.kartengruppe.it/immagini/okm/1864G-nb_2.jpg) - foto3 (http://www.kartengruppe.it/immagini/okm/1864G-nb_2.jpg))


This is the part of the map where you can see Scapa Flow!

http://www.german-navy.de/pics/articles/marinequadrat006.jpg

[IanC]

molto interessante kartengruppe :yep:

[Hartmann]

The grid system was very bad idea after enigma code breaking. if germany changed the grids and numbers after some time it could save a lot of u-boats from planes and hunter killer groups

[kartengruppe]

molto interessante kartengruppe :yep:
ma allora c'è anche qulache paesano in rete! :D
Se interessa vederle, ho delle mappe colorate (con il colore dei fondali) delle coste occidentali italiane della KM.

Posta un desiderata con la regione e vedo se posso allietarti almeno una serata

[Cap.Palla]

ma allora c'è anche qulache paesano in rete! :D
Se interessa vederle, ho delle mappe colorate (con il colore dei fondali) delle coste occidentali italiane della KM.

Posta un desiderata con la regione e vedo se posso allietarti almeno una serata

che bello leggere l'italiano ogni tanto :DL

saluti compaesani!!

ok come back in topic...is there a mod that allow to use Km-grid in SHV??

[IanC]

But yes, KM-maps are used in SHV! :rock:


...is there a mod that allow to use Km-grid in SHV??

So is there KM maps in SH5 or not? I think it's a mod right..

[Seeadler]

So is there KM maps in SH5 or not? I think it's a mod right..
A KM map is not implemented in SH5 and there are no more commands to go somewhere to a location based on the KM grid. On the navigators table there is a KM map displayed, but this is only a texture.

[csengoi]

Sad that many things are gone that were present in SH2, 3 and 4.:nope:

[Sailor Steve]

The grid system was very bad idea after enigma code breaking. if germany changed the grids and numbers after some time it could save a lot of u-boats from planes and hunter killer groups
The Germans never knew the code had been broken.

[Madox58]

Never tested this version of SH but,
If one were to intercept the DLL call for the grid stuff?
(If a DLL call exists, cause if it's only in the EXE? Not gonna happen.)
Then write the proper code, it could happen.
Again, never tested this with SH5.
So it's only a thought.

[Cap.Palla]

Ok, so if we have to use the standard latitude / longitude map....anyone know what is the range from your patrol point that allow to accomplish the mission? I still have to understand that and i usually patrol a little area around the yellow icon on the map....:down:

[IanC]

A KM map is not implemented in SH5 and there are no more commands to go somewhere to a location based on the KM grid.

I guess they thought that might be too complicated for the average gamer... :roll: