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23rd June 2025 - mapster update (M751 Poland, 1:50,000)
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress: almost all sheets of a 1:50,000 AMS map of Poland, dated 1954-1968 (series M751) produced and published (mainly) by US Army Map Service (index sheet). There are approx. 620 new sheets, including a small number of ‘doubles’, i.e. different print runs, although they're most likely identical, despite various print dates - updates from 'Corona' spy satellite programmes only appear on maps published in late 1970s onward. What's missing? - a few sheets from 'Kresy' (Borderlands), a few more from the PL-CS border. A few dozen sheets from Western Poland was held under a different AMS series (M746, „Germany (Polish Administration), at least in edition 1. We will scan them too, though we don't yet know when. Other 1:50,000 series from Eastern Europe, such as those related to the Baltic Countries (series: N751, N752, N753), and series N701 ‘Western USSR’ are also due to be scanned but not a priority, given the 'fan-like' expansion of European land mass looking eastward, these sets will easily include a few thousands sheet - not a quick job.

Important: do NOT rely on publication dates (1954 - 1968); the sheets are purely a compilation from maps captured by Germany during WW2 and, post-1945, fell into the hands of the US Army in their occupied zone of Germany. Original materials are Polish, German and Soviet maps dated 1928 - 1944, scale 1:25,000 - 1:100,000. To identify the current location, current (Polish, Belarussian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian) place-names have been provided for each sheet, alongside historical place-names (click on the blue arrow next to each sheet). Note that some settlements have disappeared after WW2, others changed their name. Be weary of 'generic' names while searching on current maps (google maps, openstreet maps), there are dozens of identical or near-identical place-names in Eastern Europe for 'Upper Birch', 'Old Village',  'Bridgend', 'Hinderford', etc. To make sure you found the correct place, always try to match the location in tandem with larger, more uniquely named towns nearby. For the area of Belarus and Ukraine, Openstreet maps appear to show more terrain details and smaller place-names than Google maps, but are less user-friendly for searching.

Also from the Library of Congress collection, two Romanian sheets of Odesa and vicinity, 1:20,000 (North and South Sheet) incuding field fortifications. Maps are dated 1941, when the Romanian army, alongside German units, attacked the Soviet Union along the southern front.

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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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