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21.12.2006
1. We are still here, somewhat snowed under in the pre-Christmas madness. A forum has been opened, as the shoutbox is clearly too restrictive. Website soft (php fusion) default settings enforced a dual forum, for both Polish and English speakers (see the flag?). Obviously you're more likely to get a reply in English if you ask your question in the English-language forum, but this is NOT an absolute restriction. You can use any language in either forum, just bear in mind you might not get much feedback if you're the only German or Russian speaking site user, for example.
2. We will be adding a lot of new maps in the next few days, approximately by 24 December.
Over 100 new scans in 1: 25 000 scale courtesy of “Archiwalne Mapy Pomorza Gdanskiego”. For the German counterparts (Messtischblatt), please see the link in the Maps 1: 25 000 folder.
1. We have received 7 new maps in 1: 25
000 scale from Wileńszczyzna
(pre-war north-east of the country). They come from the 1920s and are
somewhat unusual (in colour).
2. We have added a few German large-format (Grossblatt) copies of 1: 100
000 WIG
maps, two of the three sheets added (Mińsk i Samochwałowicze) show the
area east of the pre-war Poland.
Please note these sheets have been scanned bit by bit, as they are
fairly large, and then joined together, so the results are far from
perfect.
We decided to make them available nevertheless, as they show
interesting areas. In a few months' time we will replace them
with
proper scans from a large format scanner.
We have received permission from the owners of the The
Museum of Family History website to publish over 30 WIG 100K
map files. Since they were originally scanned on a flatbed A4 scanner
and then joined together they are, at times, imperfect. However they
present interesting areas of east and north-eastern pre-WW2 Poland. One
of the sheets is the original (Grodno Zach) copy (until now we have
only had a black-and-white war-time German copy.
The maps, marked in red, can be downloaded or viewed in the Maps 1:100
000 folder.
1. Several 25K map scans (courtesy of
Archiwalne
Mapy Pomorza Gdanskiego)
have been added. They show mainly
various parts of Kaszuby (what was known before the war as
"the Polish
corridor", west of Gdansk / Danzig). The files can be downloaded from
the
Maps
1: 25 000 folder
2. Two
100K sheets have been added (click on the files to open/download)
3. A new Literature
section has been added. Most books are of limited use if you don't read
Polish, but some files are useful nevertheless.
4. If you
have ANY questions, comments, problems, please either use the
shoutbox on the right (if you are a registered user) or
email
us.
Please include a word WIG
anywhere in the subject of your message so that we can filter out spam.
If you have scanned WIG map files and would like to share them with others, please send them to us. You can use any free or commercial ftp software (total commander, etc):
Log on:
Please email us if there is a problem with the upload.
Note: We can NOT accept map sheets which are commercial reprints published occassionally nowadays. To do so we would have to get a permission from the rightful owners first, and this is, understandably, hardly possible.
Although the site is not fully operational we have decided to pull it out of the closet, no point wasting the transfer we have paid for. We will be working on tidying up the files and adding any new ones which have appeared since the old server has closed. Later on we will add clickable index sheets and an option to upload scanned maps.
We are also going to monitor the daily transfer to see if it does not exceed limits imposed by our host.
We have begun work on the Map Archive of the Military
Geographical Institute 1919 - 1939. It is a continuation of a project by
www.mapywig.obluze.net.pl which, due to technical difficulties, was
suspended some time ago. We very much hope to be able to to present a
complete collection of WIG maps this time.
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
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