Problems with Mapster
index sheets have now been fixed.
We have added up to 50 sheets of the Austrian
(KuK) "Operationskarte" 1:400,000. The 300 dpi
sheets come from a digital library of the Polish Academy of Science,
those at 400 dpi are from private collectors and, through help
of easteurotopo.org site,
from the Library of Congress.
We have also added a few town plans: Köslin
(Koszalin), Belgard
(Bialogard), Sopot–
all in the Pomorze (Pommern) area of Poland, Kostrzyn
(Küstrin), and Klaipeda
(Memel). More (many more) town plans will be
made available after summer.
We have separated older
editions of WIG 1:25,000 maps, which are divided according to the
original materials (German, Austrian and Russian). These older sheets
from 1920s can be found on a separate index sheet.
We have added 6 new sheets of the older,
and 14 sheets of the new (1930s')
edition. All new scans at 600 dpi. A few dozens
older type sheets from the area of former Austrian "partition" should
become available by mid-summer.
Courtesy of Katedr Geologii i Geografii, Uniwersytet A. Mickiewicza
Poznan, Poland, we have received 28 sheets of a German 1:25,00
soil / land valuation map dated 1940 - 1944.
These maps are based on Polish 1:25,000 (WIG) maps, German
Topographische Karte (Messtischblatt) and Russian verst maps. We might
be able to add a larger number of sheets of this map type by end of
this year.
There's been an update to the page with index sheets of WIG maps.
Semi-related news (for those with a passion for scanning large maps on
a small-format scanner): Panavue, a long-standing software provider for
stiching photographs (and maps) are closing down by September 2014. In
the meantime they have made their flagship (enterprise) stitching
software available for free. On their home page you will find a link to the download page.
Installation is fast and painless, no strings attached, e.g. giving up
personal data, registration, etc. Software can be installed in either
English or French language version. While the interface is a bit dated,
and the stiching does not always provide perfect results, this is still
one of the best programs of this type available (no, they didn't pay us
to say that).
If you prefer the English version of the pages linked above, see a set of
three flags at the top of each page in Mapster, where you can change
language to EN or DE.
Please note: we are aware that resolution of some maps scans,
particularly sourced at digital libraries, is... underwhelming. We do
keep track of such items and when the same map or town plan appears
elsewhere, or when we have a chance to scan it at better resolution -
we do, and such poor quality scans will be replaced.
The
final update for A.D. 2013: about 40 new maps and town plans have been
made available in Mapster. Because the files are of various map types,
a list of links can be viewed at the following page: Happy browsing in 2014!
We have added approx. 110
sheets from the German editions of 1:500,000 maps across the whole of
Europe, courtesy of L'Université
Paris 8, France.
We have also received some town plans
from Pomorze (Ger. Pommern), e.g. Świnoujście (Swinemünde),
Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) and Słupsk (Stolp), as well as a few small plans
from a rather peculiar publication - a (tourist) guidebook to the
German-occupied Poland ( (Baedekers Generalgouvernement, published
1943): Warszawa,
Kraków, Radom and Lwów. The guidebook will be made available in a week
or so. A
few new sheets of the Grossblatt / Einheitsblatt series: No 3
(Danish-German border), No 4 (Labiau, Ostpreussen, currently
Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation), and No 363a - Kołki nad
Stwigą. Where is, or rather was the village of Kołki? Well, you can
find some hints in interesting canoeing trip reports (here
and here)
from a few years ago. While they are in Polish, you might try Google
translate on them, you never know what you might get!
All
broken links on page with irregular WIG maps have been fixed.
We have also added 5 new maps. The
following 27 regular WIG 1:100,000 maps have been added:
Łowicz,
Warszawa Południe, Tymbark-Rabka, Tiegenort, Osieki, Malbork, Elbląg,
Sztum, Grajewo, Callies, Nibork, Łeba, Swarzewo, Ujście (Ustka),
Lębork, Wejherowo, Puck, Braniewo, Słupsk, Lupowo, Szarkowszczyzna,
Miadzioł, Dokszyce, Wołma, Krzywicze and Kamieniec-Podolski (x 2).
They are older editions of the sheets we already have, from early
1920s. Usually they are re-printed or re-worked older maps (German,
Austrian and Russian), nevertheless they are very interesting, as they
might contain information no longer provided on later editions, such as
the "zaścianki", small settlements of Polish impoverished gentry in the
east of Poland. Also the Łowicz sheet, dated 1924, is pretty
good-looking.
Also, three town-plans: Silva:
Stadtplan Berlin, probably dated 1941 – 1944 Glogau
(Głogów), undated, 1:10,000. Bahnhof
Ratomka – German, WW1 topographic sketch, scale 1:5,000. The
area is a few miles north-east of Minsk, Belarus.
Next update - literature - probably in a week or two. Publications
mainly in German and Polish. After that we should be able to re-focus
on the German WW2 maps of the Soviet Union (Russlan 1:50,000 and
1:100,000)
How can I obtain a scan of a map that includes that town of Bolechow (coordinates are: Latitude 49.0669 degrees north, Longitude 23.8514 degrees east). I am looking for a map at 1:25,000 scale that s
Hello !! I am a new member and interested in the Region of Chojnice/Konitz. Anyone here could help me in finding an address ?
Thank you very much in advance...
