We are very grateful for the permission
and fantastic support we received over this summer from the staff at the Geoscience Faculty of
the Uniwersyt Śląski with scanning
a large number of historical maps in their collection. It is going to take
some time to process all the material, so we will release it in batches,
as soon as new maps and plans become available. For now:
- approx. 40 new town plans, including showing
the town of Cieszyn on the Polish-Czech border. Other
plans can be found in the following sub-categories:
Town plans
of central Europe
Town plans
of GOP (Upper Silesian Industrial Region)
Other
plans (Strasbourg in France)
- Several
WIG 1:25,000, maps, both Polish and German editions
- Several
German 1:100,000, joint editions, so-called Grossblatt / Einheitsblatt),
particularly interesting a Mil.-Geo edition of Grossblatt Nr 386 Łuck from
June 1944.
- several
sheets of the German 1:300 000 (Ãœbersichtskarte von
Mitteleuropa, Osteuropa) across the whole continent
Please note: most maps have been scanned at 600 dpi, some files,
particularly large-format sheets such as Grossblatt editions, might be up
to 100 Mb.
A technical issue: we are aware of a problem with our website en-coding,
which now defaults to ISO-8859-1. The effect, in plain English, is that
some characters are replaced with illegible garbage which makes it hard or
impossible to read some portions of the text. We are working
to fix this issue. |
