several Soviet (post-WW2) town plans from our own collections,
mainly from Poland: Koszalin, Kalisz (sheet 1&sheet 2),
Lubin (no, not Lublin!) Slawno, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Nysa, Leszno, and Bialystok (only one of two
sheets is available, sorry!). An interesting town plan of Gusyev (old
German name of Gumbinnen) in Kaliningrad Oblast Obwodzie
Kaliningradzkim, two versions are available: 1973 & 1987.
Please do not assume that the
date of print closely relates to what the real situation is for that
year - some of the plans are drawn from editions that were produed, in
some cases, several years earlier!
German town plan of Bialystok, dated 1941 r.
(we already make available an identical plan, which was published in
the Mil-Geo Angaben ueber das
Europaeische Russland. This variant (practically identical) comes from
a different print run, though we have no more specific information.
Other maps:
approx. 300, post-WW2 Soviet 1:25,000
topo maps of Poland, mainly the coast, Polish-German border, and the
south-west. Please note! - the index sheet for those maps is very extensive, as was the
scope of interest of the Soviet Army. Consequently, the index
sheet loads long, and slow.
It is somewhat faster to access the sheets via the list. Naturally, all sheets are
also available when you enter specific place-name in the mapster search
engine.
ok. 700 sheets of the post-WW2 Polish
topographic map (1:25,000), Polish variant of the Soviet map
(the only difference is the Latin alphabet). Most sheets dated 1954 -
1961. Approx. 200 sheets from the collection of polona (National
Library of Poland), at 600 dpi, another 500 or so, from private
collections, z300 - 600 dpi). Currently we have no access to other
sheets.
also several joint editions of the above map. Unfortunately, as
they were published 'ad hoc', as the front moved back and forth,
sometimes they are not regular enough to fit them into regular sheet
lines, or one index sheet. Consequently, they're available via three
lists: A, B, C. Please note, they are very
large sheets of paper, they were scanned at 600 dpi, so jpg file size
can easily reach 130Mb. As usual, it's best to download them to your
local computer, and then open via usual graphic software.
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From the collection of the National Library of Poland, via digital
library, polona.pl, we have added a collection of WIG
1:25,000 and their German variants.
- approx. 900 original, Polish sheets (tourist, regular, temporary and
provisional editions),
- approx. 450 German variants, prepared by the Reichsamt fuer
Landesaufnahme (1940 - 1944), D. Mil.-Kart. Inst. Warschau (1941 -
1942) and various Wehrmachtu survey departments and topo and field
print units (1943 - 1945).
Actually, all the new sheet have already been available, sourced from
other collection, but the new scans are 600 dpi (with exception of some
reverse sides), and include some maps with extra information, such as
corrections, signatures, etc.
Please note: this is not a complete set of these maps available at the
Nat. Library of Poland, polona.pl are missing from several to a few
dozen sheets, we don't have any information as to the reasons.
nowy
From
the collection of the National Library of Poland (polona.pl), about 500 sheets of the German 1:100,000
copies of Polish tactical map by WIG, mostly in black and
white. The originals bear pre-WW2 dates and their copies are undated,
so with no specific information from written German sources, we can
assume dating as approx. 1939.
What's left behind to add is the German copies of WIG 1:100,000 series,
mainly in black & white. These should become available within the
next few weeks.
nowy
Approx. 550 sheets of the Austro-Hungarian 1:75,000
Spezialkarte 1:75 000 map - through the digital library of
the National Library of Poland, but from the collection of the
Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Unfortunately, the sheets do not
plug missing areas in the index sheets, they are high-resolution (600
dpi) versions of the 300 dpi sheets we already have from the same
source.
We have had some requests to fill in gaps in the coverage of German
1:25,000 topo maps from the western part of the country. To do that, we
used scans from the Canadian McMaster University 600 dpi) as well as
the University of Berkeley, California (300 dpi), plus a few dozens of
sheets from our own collection (600 dpi). In total, approx. 3,100
sheets which are available via „Topographische Karte / Messtischblatt -
Germany”. Some 25 sheets or more from the border area of
Holland and France ‘spilled’ over the edge of the known world, because
our index sheet does not extend far enough to the west. These sheets
are available via map list and marked on the list as ‘empty’ (though
they are not). And for the continuous, year-round,,spring cleaning, we
have added several sheets of the GSGS 4144 (Germany 1:25 000).
To clarify, we are not working on, or planning to provide full coverage
of either original (i.e. German) or Allied (AMS / GSGS) series covering
the territory of Germany, given the number of sheets and editions runs
into dozens of thousands...
And, while working on the above, it was hard to notice a gap in
coverage that is Bavaria (Bayern). Fortunately, courtesy of the
University of Berkeley library, we were able to provide approx. 320
sheets of a 1:25,000 map of Bavaria (Topogr. Karte von Bayern w skali 1:25 000),
cut along different lines to the regular German Topographische Karte.
The sheets from Berkeley are at 300 dpi, plus approx. 25 sheets
from our own collection, at 600 dpi. Since we don't have our own index
sheet, the maps are available as a list, and the coverage (approx.) can
be checked on original German index sheets from 1944 below the list.
With some exceptions, most newly-added maps are already available, from
other sources. However, the new copies are very well-scanned at 600 dpi
resolution, so they're highly recommended.
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
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
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
