WIG Map Archive (English) - News: 30th July 2020

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30th July 2020 - map update

1 New maps:
A nicely drawn and rather long (ca 2.7 m) Topographic Plan of the Szczara River sections (Топографический плань части рѣки Щары) from the collection of Muzeum Ziemi PAN, dated, approx. turn of 18th / 19th c.

Some maps from the collections made available by US university libraries:
- ca. 40 sheets of the Austro-Hungarian 1:200,000 Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa), from the collection of the American Geographical Society), via digital library of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Please be aware that files, downloadable from the site, despite metadata, are NOT 600 dpi, but rather 300dpi.
From the same library
- dwatwo editions of the WIG 1:1 milion map (International Map of the World series). According to some information the sheet of Berlin, produced by the German Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, raised Polish objections, due to some, unspecific, "misinformation" and, as a result, WIG published at least two Polish variants of that sheet. Original, 1930 German edition can be seen and downloaded here.
- German Plan von Krakau, 1:10,000, dated approx. 1942-43

From the collection of the Stanford University, California:
- approx. 170 sheets of the German, updated variants of the original Austro-Hungarian 1:200,000 Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa. Most sheets dated 1940 - 1945, covering ground from Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk) down to Istanbul. All sheets scanned very well and at 600 dpi.
- one (missing) sheet of the WIG 1:500,000 maps (Cieszyn), provisional edition dated April 1939.
- three sheets of a rare German 1:50,000 map type dated 1944/45 that covered (mostly, but not solely) the area of occupied Poland.

Other maps and town plans from the above libraries will be added in August and September.

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AndrewK

08/02/2023 00:50

Glad to see you back, Marek!

AndrewK

08/25/2022 15:09

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) If you think what you'r

zimnoch

01/22/2022 22:50

Hello: I do Polish Genealogy. I need a topo map of Poland with major cities which Iâ€™ve never been able to find on the WEB. It should show post partition Poland with an out line of pre-partition Pola

AndrewK

03/21/2020 14:55

What's up, Marek? What are you working on? Hope all is OK.

zimnoch

01/26/2019 14:42

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

BOBROWICZ

12/04/2017 15:22

peut-on obtenir la carte détaillée de la frontière Est suite au traité de Brest-litovsk ? merci d'avance

lesliebutler

09/10/2017 04:54

Can I get some guidance on the projection that WIG cartographers used on the 1 to 100,000 maps?

Andrzej Jazdzewski

04/02/2017 23:15

osowiec

marekz

03/17/2017 11:34

@JMisiewicz I tried to send an e-mail, but got an auto-response: "The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found" If you want to get in touch, please use e-mail (see left)

marekz

03/16/2017 18:10

I think we need to drill into this... Please check for my e-mail in your inbox!

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