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18 June 2012 - an update
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A few dozen maps (various) have been added to Mapster:
1. Several sheets of the Bildplan
(sometimes "Bildskizze" or "Bildplanwerk", including one, unfortunately
incomplete, but with a respectable resolution of 1200 dpi - south
part of Poznan, in western Poland.
2. A few Messtischblatt (Topographische Karte)
sheets in 1:25,000,
600 dpi, rather than the usual 400 dpi: Lewin Brzeski,
Ostatni Grosz,
Breslau-Lissa,Popław, Kostrzyn
and Lendzin.
The last two sheets are particularly interesting: the Küstrin sheet is
one of the "Geheim" (secret) sheets, showing the fortifications in and
around the town, which were erased from other, civilian
editions. Lendzin sheet has some hand-drawn and planned route
of a "Reichautobahn†on a short stretch between "Gleiwitz" and
"Krakau", and another planned road (north-south) towards a "planned
airport".
3. Several German 1:50,000 maps from
the Ukraine, based on Soviet originals (1943 and
1944).
4. Two Austro-Hungarian 1:75,000 maps (Steniatynand Kamień Koszyrski),
in 600 and 400 dpidpi. The quality of print is poor, it's probably a
field edition dated 1916, but both sheets contain, if you look closely
enough, field narrow gauge, WW1 railways, which are not marked on any
later maps of that area.
5. A few Polish 1:25,000 maps by
WIG (Raszyn, Warszawa Praga,
Mokotów, Wola).
They do not fill up any gaps in the coverage for us, but are
interesting, pre-WW2 editions nevertheless. One of them, (Lubotyń Stary)
contains an interesting set of
stamps and signatures on the reverse, whil Tarnawa
and Kolbuszowa are
pre-production sheets including hand-made corrections, later added to
the print run korekcyjne. Also interesting, is a German edition of a
sheet Majdan pod KolbuszowÄ…,
probably dated 1944. It was made from some original Polish survey
material by WIG, and it also includes military and other installations
and structures added by the Germans (large training groud in the area).
Some of those updates are rather... obvious, but others, less visible.
We have also managed to bring under (some) control the sub-page on
mapywig.org with German maps dated 1919 - 1945. Now we will do the same
with the German maps dated - 1919. The changes are simplification of
the layout were necessary, as adding new scans to the ever growing
lists of maps and updating old sheets takes an awful amount of time,
which could be used, instead to tidy up the site and add new materials.
And yes, there is plenty of new material, which should start appearing
by end of this week.
Hey, Marek! Trying to access maps at your page "Other Central European Maps, via both Chrome and Opera browsers, I get the dialog box "File not found (404 error)
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Hello: I do Polish Genealogy. I need a topo map of Poland with major cities which I’ve never been able to find on the WEB. It should show post partition Poland with an out line of pre-partition Pola
Hi:
Are there any other maps showing parishes such as:
Andrzej Tomczak
Siec parafialna
Wojewoddztwa pomorskiego
Okregu bytowskiego I leborskiego
W drugiej polowie xvi wieku
Skala 1:300.
Thanks