After a short break, a small update:
approx. 200 town plans, from Polona (National Library of Poland),
digital collections, in the following categories:
- Central Europe
- GOP (Gornoslaski
Okreg Przemyslowy, a heavily conurbated area of Silesia)
- a few town plans
from the Baltics
- a town plan of
Berlin, mid-19th century (only one plan, but please note
it's a 200Mb, 600 dpi jpg file!)
- a few Russian town
plans
For your information, adding town plans from Polona collection is
takes a long time to complete, as it's a laborious proces: each file
needs to be 'processed' manually, i.e. correct name, scale, publication
date and call number need to be added to the file name, and then, all
of this needs to be manually entered into our system, as there's no
quick and easy way to convert all this information automatically. For
reference, there's still about 200 - 400 town plans to add, mainly
related to Central & Eastern Europe, plus a good few thousands
individual maps at various scales which also need to be processed
manually. This will take time.
Nevertheless, some things can be semi-automated, so we have addedd
approx. 70 sheets of the
Soviet 1:50,000 map, mostly dated around 1980s, the area is
Kaliningrad Oblast.
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