Bad news, for a change: as of approx. Saturday, 17th June, ALL map files (with exception of German 1:25,000 Messtischblatt series) will become - temporarily - unavailable. Therefore, if anyone wants to download any maps, this coming week is best time to do so, as re-establishing full access to maps is going to take at least a few, and more likely several weeks.

As our hosting provider is not happy with our custom they want us to remove all files within 7 days (including site_backup). Naturally, we hold backup of all those files locally, on hard drives, so there is no danger that anything would be lost forever. Unfortunately, uploading approx. 50,000 maps (over 1 Tb of data) to a new server will take at least a few weeks.

Both sites involved in this project, i.e. mapywig.org and igrek.amzp.pl (mapster) will continue to run, as we have no plans to close them down, but to confirm, the maps and books will be - for some time - gone.

In the next several weeks we will transfer all map files to a public ftp server, i.e. one available without password, and we will provide information here as soon as it happens. In the longer run of 2 - 3 months, we will re-instate full functionality, that is search and downloading of maps and documents via mapywig.org and igrek.amzp.pl.

The work to make available other maps and materials scanned at the Library of Congress continues although, due to the current problem, it has to take 2nd priority. Therefore, new material can be expected to be available, realistically, no sooner than July - August.