AFE GRID CELL BOUNDARY FILES

The AFE grid cell boundaries as KML files for Google Earth and Google Maps

1) Three KML files with network links to separate territory level files

These grid files have been created in January 2008, and updated for Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia in November 2010. The grid cell differs slightly from that used by the AFE Editor 2006 software as a whole and and in certain territory / grid cell combinations.

Britain
 Grid boundaries for the AFE territories, http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/gmap/gridfilelinks.kml.

This file contain links to the individual KML files on this web site. Right click the link, copy the link location, open Google Earth and use 'File | Open' in Google Earth (or the save the file to local disk and open the kml file in Google Earth). In Google Earth, tick or untick the links to the files depending on where you want to see the grid displayed. You can modify the the colour, width and opacity (etc.) of the grid cells in Google Earth.

Denmark
 Grid boundaries for the AFE territories (another format), http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/gmap/gridfilelinks2.kml

To download: see the instructions above. Grid cells in different format.

Murmansk oblast
 Grid boundaries for the Russian administrative areas, http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/gmap/gridfiles_russia.kml
To download: see the instructions above.

2) View KML files as overlays on Google Map

Click the links below in order to display the AFE grid in the different territories on Google Maps. If you have a Google account, you can also save these maps to 'My Maps'.

Switzerland
 Al Az Au Be(B) Be(L) BH Bl By Br Bu Cg Co Cr Cs Ct Da Es Fa Fe Ga Ge Gr Hb He Ho Hs Hu Is It Kaz Ko La Lt Lu Mk Mo No Po Rm Sa Sb Se Si(M) Si(S) Sk Sl Su Tu Uk(K) Uk(U)

Russian main AFE division. Rus(C) Rus(E) Rus(Ka) Rus(N)

Smolensk oblast

Russian administrative areas:

Arkhangelsk Province Astrakhan Province Baskortostan Belgorod Province Bryansk Province Chelyabinsk Province Chechnya Chuvashia

Dagestan Ivanovo Province Kaliningrad Province Kalmykia Kaluga Province Karelia Kirov Province Komi Kostroma Province Krasnodar Territory

Kursk Province Leningrad Province Lipetsk Province Mari El Mordovia Moscow Moscow Province Murmansk Province Nizhny Novgorod Province Novgorod Province

Orenburg Province Oryol Province Penza Province Perm Territory Pskov Province Rostov Province Ryazan Province

Samara Province St. Petersburg Saratov Province Sverdlovsk Province Smolensk Province

Tambov Province Tatarstan Tver Province Tula Province Udmurtia Ulyanovsk Province Vladimir Province Volgograd Province Voronezh Province Yaroslavl Province

Google Map tools for AFE

 These utilities are yet unfinished and undocumented (and no support is promised). However, they have been useful in working with AFE map data (for instance, in finding the AFE grid cells for place names, addresses or different types of coordinates). They are based on Google Maps, and they use, among other things, use the KML files listed above.

RL's Google Map Gadget 1

RL's Google Map Gadget 2

RL's Dot Gadget

MGRS and UTM lines for Google Earth

These files, made by www.nearby.org.uk will display the MGRS and UTM grids in Google Earth. Right click the links, copy the link location and open it in Google Earth (or save the files to local disk) and open them from there:

MGRS lines for Google Earth
UTM lines for Google Earth

You can view the UTM and MGRS grid lines also on Google Maps:

UTM lines on Google Maps
MGRS lines on Google Maps

Raino Lampinen, November 22, 2010

questions on using these files: raino lampinen at helsinki fi
questions on the AFE distribution data: arto kurtto at helsinki fi