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Map Archive of Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny 1919 - 1939
Non-commercial project with scans of maps and geographic materials
published by the Wojskowy
Instytut Geograficzny (WIG), 1919 - 1939.
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| 16.07.2010 - site navigation changes |
| You may notice we have removed three items at the bottom of the navigation menu at left, labeled "Submit Link", "Submit News", and "Submit Article". We realized that these three are very rarely used, and their functions are not particularly helpful. If you have a link, or news, article or anything else to put on the site, please contact us directly at the email address shown here. |
| 14.07.2010 - update |
| We have added a sub-page on Russian and Soviet maps (link on the left-hand side). There are about 130 various maps spanning about 100 years. We do not expect to expand this collection soon, unless we come across more maps, which is very unlikely. In the meantime, enjoy what is there, the maps are certainly interesting. |
| 26 May 2010 - news |
 Over sixty new sheets of Karte des westlichen Russlands have been added. Please note that we split the German maps into two sub-sections, "by 1919" and "1919 - 1945". It is not a 100% clear cut, as some KdwR maps were printed in Lithuania and Poland, by 1921, but they still sit with the rest of KdwR maps, in the "- 1919" folder. Likewise, German 1:200,000 maps date back to 19th century and then, early 1900s - and they continued until end of WW2. For convenience they were all put in the "1919 - 1945" sub-page. We will have the same problem when, at some point, we will provide more sheets of the "small" German Generalstabkarte, also known as "Karte des Deutschen Reiches", which was begun well before WW1 and continued until 1945. For now, the sheets adjoining KdwR sheets will stay in the "-1919" folder
A few other maps have also been added - WIG 100K, one or two German 300K sheets, some more are to follow by the end of summer.
PLEASE NOTE: unfortunately KdwR maps come with a watermark, as one well-known Polish auction site decided to ignore our repeated requests to remove auctions where people sold the scans we had made available here for free use only. What is it that some people can respect nothing in the world, other than their own profit?
Plans:
Another batch of KdwR sheets should appear by end of July.
If all goes well, in the next few weeks, we will also show about 100 Russian and Soviet maps (approx. 1900 - 1945) in various scales. Later we will resume the (overdue!) town plans and Karten des westlichen Russlands.
We have a long line of maps to scan, this will be - hopefully - done in August. There are approx. 300 - 700 maps, to fill various gaps, particularly different editions of WIG 100K maps and a large number of German maps in 1:200,000 scale (both Reymannkarte and later, contoured map in the same scale from 1900 - 1945). Also, in the same scale, interesting and up-to-date German maps of the Mitteleuropa and the Balkans from 1940 - 1944 (strictly speaking, about 15 + sheets from south-easternmost "Kresy" of pre-WW2 Poland and from Romania), also quite a lot of 1:100,000 maps of Poland by American AMS and British GSGS and about 40 - 60 sheets of German 300K Osteuropa from the Soviet Union. Plus a medley of other maps which we will try to squeeze in the limited time we will have.
There are lot of publications we have got hold of, as well as information on WIG 1:25,000 maps held in various libraries. Unfortunately we don't have time to process it all, but we are working on a list of 1:25,000 maps and we will make it available as soon as it isn't embarrassing to show it in public. There are good reasons to make such a list, first to get an updated information on what WIG did publish in that scale by September 1939, second, to give people searching for a particular sheet some information if "their" sheet is available, and at which library (which does NOT mean you will ever get this or that library's permission to scan them, but still, you'll know where to start) and third, we still DO want to scan all those sheets after all. If not in the anally-staffed library A, then in library D, or wherever the librarians don't behave as if we wanted to rip their precious collection to pieces, which is clearly what normal people usually do when they visit a library. |
| 6 May 2010 - news |
We have added some new maps, by WIG (25K, 100K, 300K, 500K), Austro-Hungarian (just a couple, really), a a few German maps are already there, a few more to appear in the next couple of days. A high quality tourist map by WIG will be uploaded in the next 2 days too ("other WIG maps" folder to the left). Also a book in the literature section on WIG quasi-stereographic coordinates system has been added. Warning! This is a hard-core item, not for faint-hearted. Unless you eat multi-level equation for breakfast.
There should be more maps available in the next couple of weeks, we're working on them. |
| 23 January 2010 |
| Several new town plans, mainly of Lwow (Lemberg) and Wilno (Vilnius) have been added. More are on the way (within a few days). Or not. |
| 22 December 2009 - update |
| Christmas break is nearly here. It can be stressful, so we might have a quick relief available: new town plans, other Central European Maps and a few German maps. There might be more, if not by tomorrow, then by the New Year. |
| 3 December 2009 - update |
| This is a long-overdue update: we have added new 25K, 100K, 300K maps (WIG), a few new German maps and quite a few new and interesting items to the "Literature" page. We still lag behind with maps already scanned but still not added to the site, we'll try our best to wrap them round for Christmas. |
| 1 September 2009 - 70th anniversary of WW2 |
A reminder, so that we might, just might, draw some lessons (if people ever do).
We would also like to apologize very much for the defacing of the front page (www.mapywig.org), this is being dealt with. |
| 22/08/2009 - news update |
1. The 1:25,000 Messtischblatt maps mentioned before have been (almost all by now) restored.
2. We are adding some 350 + new maps on our site soon, to be finished probably by the end of August:
First batch available: 42 sheets of Karte des westlichen Russlands, dated approx. 1914 - 1917. (link to the left (German maps).
Second batch available: approx 50 of the very early (1920 - 1922) editions of WIG maps, most of them somewhat crude copies of Russian 1:84,000 maps, but they cover very interesting areas. Please note that the Russian sheets were cut differently to the later WIG maps, therefore the corresponding equivalent of Pas... Slup is only approximate.
Third batch available: 8 "other" WIG maps - see link to the left.
3. We will have some very interesting cartographic materials, but it will take a little longer to process, perhaps a few months. |
| 7.10.2009 - Problems with Mapster |
As of yesterday German 1:25 000 scale maps (Messtischblatt) from Archiwum
Map Zachodniej Polski, which can be accessed via Mapster alongside other
maps, have been unavailable. This is may be due to temporary server failure
or something more serious. At worst it means that the maps will
not be - temporarily - available, until our collegues sort it out. |
| 12.05.2009 - update |
| After the break, some more maps - Allied, German and Austro-Hungarian. In a few days we will add some WIG maps too, unfortunately just a few. |
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