18 sheets of WIG
1:100,000 maps have been added. They include
older
variants, from 1920s, from the area of Kresy, and
newer
editions. from 1930. All sheets available in 300 dpi and 600
dpi. New maps have been marked with a green "New" bubble on the lists.
We have also added
approx.
30 scans (600 dpi), to the collection of German air photo
maps (Bildplan edition) courtesy of
archiwum
Wydziału Geologii i Geografii UAM in Poznan, Poland. Majority
of those sheets have already been made available in 400 dpi, but this
wasn't good enough, so all will have been re-scanned at 600 dpi. We
expect around 170 – 180 sheets (in total) from the same source, but
please bear with us, as scanning might take some time, perhaps another
2 - 3 months.
Courtesy of the
University
of Chicago Library we are able to show
230
scans of the Red Army General Staff maps of Eastern Poland, dated 1939,
scale 1:25,000. The maps cover the area of Polish Wołyn
(Volhynia) and they were produced, probably, in preparation of the
"liberation" of the area in late 1939. The maps are a slight re-scale
job of the tsarist, topography survey sheets, so-called half-verst maps
(1:21,000), with no evidence of updating. Therefore, it should be
assumed they are accurate as per the date shown in the top-left corner,
i.e. approx. 1885 – 1905. These maps are rather important, as, in many
cases, they are the only detailed map of a given area until, at least
1940.
We don't know the total number of sheets produced in this "block",
there could be, up to 600 sheets printed in 1939. Another set of scans,
around 100 strong, could become available in the next 2 months.
