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6th December 2024 - mapster update
06.12.2024_news_en

A (slightly) delayed update:

  • approx. 30 sheets of a 1:50,000 (GSGS 4529 Med 4) dated 1945 (Austria), a re-scaled copy of an Austrian and / or German 1:75,000 map. The series was published by the  'Survey Directorate AFHQ' (Allied Force Headquarters). As there's no modern index sheet for this series in mapster, you can use one from 1945 that's available underneath the list of sheets. The series is marked on the index sheet, in the bottom-right corner, in GREEN. For those interested in AFHQ history and structure, here's a pdf file.
  • a few British and US 1M map series covering Europe and Asia (AMS 1301 / AMS 5301, 5302 / GSGS 2555 / GSGS 4646), dated 1940 - 1965. There have been quite a few of series in this scale and they might be continued until today and we have no time to figure out details and nuances, they have 'provisionally' ended in one bag (list).
  • right in the same 'bag', about 20 sheets of a British small-scale (2.5M) map series  GSGS 4340 / HIND 1080) which covers Asia, though the sheets started from... the Black Sea. Some scans are doubles, but here and there, different publishing dates are available.
  • Himalaya, 3 (out of 4?) sheets, ‘Tibet and Adjacent Countries’, 1:2,5M.
  • ...and one (probably out of 2) sheets of ‘Highlands of Tibet and Surrounding Regions’. Interestingly, the map shows a dense network of railways, most of which no longer exist.

From the collection of Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde

All Leibniz-Institut fuer Laenderkunde maps, though scanned really well, are available only at 300 dpi.

From the collection of the University of Berkeley Library, unfortunately also at 300 dpi only:

As to the map type itself: German 1:50,000, under a code-names of Eol 50 (Ostland) and Esu 50 (Sowjetunion) based on a compilation of map sources: captured Polish maps by WIG, likewise Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian maps, but primarily, based on massive cache of Soviet 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 maps, additionally updated from German air photos from 1942-1944 and field reports. We don't know the extent of this map type, so when mapster index was drawn, the range was rather... excessive, stretching to Berlin in the west. No cler, original German index sheets are available (yet), we added what was at hand below the index sheets of single and quadruple sheets. Given the area covered by this map type, and number of war-time editions, estimated number of sheets could have easily run into a few thousands, or more. However, we do not expect to add any further sheets either this year - or the next either.
It needs to be acknowledged, that using this map type in mapster is difficult; firstly, because mapster database of place names does not extend to the east. Secondly, mapster index 'background maps' do not extend east of Poland either, so it's hard to identify individual map sheets against large terrain features, such as cities, rivers or large lakes. Thirdly, you can't see sheet names on the mapster Russland 1:50,000 map series. We will try to improve it somewhat by adding sheet names to the index, but please bear in mind it's over 700 German, Russian / Lithuanian / Ukrainian place-names. They need to be located, checked and entered into database manually, which is a very time-consuming process - we'll start from the larger towns / sheet titles.

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04/30/2024 17:10
I have tried to update my email - hope it works

04/30/2024 17:02
Any reason I can't get the Polish maps 1:100,000 for Miory, Dryswiaty etc? I get the 404 error instead. Frown

08/02/2023 00:50
Glad to see you back, Marek!

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

01/22/2022 22:50
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

03/21/2020 14:55
What's up, Marek? What are you working on? Hope all is OK.

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

12/04/2017 15:22
peut-on obtenir la carte détaillée de la frontière Est suite au traité de Brest-litovsk ? merci d'avance

09/10/2017 04:54
Can I get some guidance on the projection that WIG cartographers used on the 1 to 100,000 maps?

04/02/2017 23:15
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