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| 26 May 2010 - news |
 Over sixty new sheets of Karte des westlichen Russlands have been added. Please note that we split the German maps into two sub-sections, "by 1919" and "1919 - 1945". It is not a 100% clear cut, as some KdwR maps were printed in Lithuania and Poland, by 1921, but they still sit with the rest of KdwR maps, in the "- 1919" folder. Likewise, German 1:200,000 maps date back to 19th century and then, early 1900s - and they continued until end of WW2. For convenience they were all put in the "1919 - 1945" sub-page. We will have the same problem when, at some point, we will provide more sheets of the "small" German Generalstabkarte, also known as "Karte des Deutschen Reiches", which was begun well before WW1 and continued until 1945. For now, the sheets adjoining KdwR sheets will stay in the "-1919" folder
A few other maps have also been added - WIG 100K, one or two German 300K sheets, some more are to follow by the end of summer.
PLEASE NOTE: unfortunately KdwR maps come with a watermark, as one well-known Polish auction site decided to ignore our repeated requests to remove auctions where people sold the scans we had made available here for free use only. What is it that some people can respect nothing in the world, other than their own profit?
Plans:
Another batch of KdwR sheets should appear by end of July.
If all goes well, in the next few weeks, we will also show about 100 Russian and Soviet maps (approx. 1900 - 1945) in various scales. Later we will resume the (overdue!) town plans and Karten des westlichen Russlands.
We have a long line of maps to scan, this will be - hopefully - done in August. There are approx. 300 - 700 maps, to fill various gaps, particularly different editions of WIG 100K maps and a large number of German maps in 1:200,000 scale (both Reymannkarte and later, contoured map in the same scale from 1900 - 1945). Also, in the same scale, interesting and up-to-date German maps of the Mitteleuropa and the Balkans from 1940 - 1944 (strictly speaking, about 15 + sheets from south-easternmost "Kresy" of pre-WW2 Poland and from Romania), also quite a lot of 1:100,000 maps of Poland by American AMS and British GSGS and about 40 - 60 sheets of German 300K Osteuropa from the Soviet Union. Plus a medley of other maps which we will try to squeeze in the limited time we will have.
There are lot of publications we have got hold of, as well as information on WIG 1:25,000 maps held in various libraries. Unfortunately we don't have time to process it all, but we are working on a list of 1:25,000 maps and we will make it available as soon as it isn't embarrassing to show it in public. There are good reasons to make such a list, first to get an updated information on what WIG did publish in that scale by September 1939, second, to give people searching for a particular sheet some information if "their" sheet is available, and at which library (which does NOT mean you will ever get this or that library's permission to scan them, but still, you'll know where to start) and third, we still DO want to scan all those sheets after all. If not in the anally-staffed library A, then in library D, or wherever the librarians don't behave as if we wanted to rip their precious collection to pieces, which is clearly what normal people usually do when they visit a library. |
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