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16th November 2017 - map update
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New maps from the collection of the Library of Congress: approx. 700 sheets of the WIG 1:25,000 map,
provisional edition. Current coverage of this map series
(both Polish and WW2 German editions) can be seen on the index sheet. Please note that
the sheets are reprints of earlier maps (Russian and Austro-Hungarian),
often re-scaled, so they show the situation before WW1 or even from the
turn of 19th century - NOT, as suggested by their print date - from
1930s.
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With kind permission from Mr Jean-Luc Arnaud who runs a digital mapping
project "CartoMundi", we have received
sheets to complement a few series of German Volkstumskarte von Slowakien &
Jugoslawien, byPublikationstelle Wien, from older,
Austro-Hungarian 1:200,000 edition (information about the map-maper,
Wilfried Krallert, can be found in a Wikipedia article, in German).
Please note: you
should find scanned original index sheets (German, Allied, etc.) under
the mapster index sheets and map lists for large map series in mapster.
This should help navigating and establishing full extent of a given map
series.
From the map collection of the Library of Congress, we have added
approx. 800 sheets of the Polish WIG 1:100,000 'tactical map". Most
sheets fill in gaps and provide alternative editions to the
regular-format maps. Majority is from the regular series",
others, were drawn along
different (Russian) sheet lines, showing the areas in the
East). Several German
re-prints dated 1939 and 1940 are interesting as they vary
from the regular German re-prints of this map type available widely in
Poland and elsewhere.
After the summer break, there are more maps from the Library od
Congress: around 50 - 60 sheeets of a more obscure 1944 German 1:50,000
map called "1:50 000 Deutches Reich (Gen. Gouv.)". Small sheets cover
the area of central Poland, while the large ones (of which we only have
one), are scattered across the territory of Belarus (Polesia) and
western Ukraine. Please note, directly below the mapster index sheet
and list of available
sheets there are post-WW2 American and British index sheet
indicating available maps of this type. Well, at least available around
1954...
From the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, we have
added approx. 800 sheets of the Polish 1:25,000 map by
W.I.G. As the maps are of a "provisional" type, based on
earlier Russian ones, they are not as detailed as the scale might
suggest, and what they show is actually dated to the turn of 19th and
20th century (in some cases, they might be copies of German WW1 maps
based on earlier Russian sources).
Batch No 2 of the provisional edition, covering southern Poland, will
be made available in the autumn. In the meantime, we can expect at least
one more update of other map types.
11th July 2017 - important SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (2)
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All materials have been moved to a new server and are available via mapster.
We still need to update the links on individual pages of mapywig.org
which will take a few more days.
In the meantime, a few more 1:25,000
Polish maps by WIG have been added.
Next update can be expected in 1 - 3 days.
Bad news, for a change: as of approx. Saturday,
17th June, ALL map files (with exception of German 1:25,000
Messtischblatt series) will become - temporarily - unavailable. Therefore,
if anyone wants to download any maps, this coming week is best time to
do so, as re-establishing
full access to maps is going to take at least a few, and more likely
several weeks.
As our hosting provider is not happy with our custom they want us to
remove all files within 7 days (including site_backup). Naturally, we
hold backup of all those files locally, on hard drives, so there is no
danger that anything would be lost forever. Unfortunately, uploading
approx. 50,000 maps (over 1 Tb of data) to a new server will take at
least a few weeks.
Both sites involved in
this project, i.e. mapywig.org and igrek.amzp.pl (mapster) will
continue to run, as we have no plans to close them down, but to
confirm, the maps and books will be - for some time - gone.
In the next several weeks we will transfer all map files to a public
ftp server, i.e. one available without password, and we will provide
information here as soon as it happens. In the longer run of 2 - 3
months, we will re-instate full functionality, that is search and
downloading of maps and documents via mapywig.org and igrek.amzp.pl.
The work to make available other maps and materials scanned at the
Library of Congress continues although, due to the current problem, it
has to take 2nd priority. Therefore, new material can be expected to be
available, realistically, no sooner than July - August.
From the map collection of the Library of Congress dodaliśmy:
- approx. 530 sheets of the WIG 1:25,000 map
of the new type (provisional, normal and tourist editions). This means
that the collection holds around 95% of all new-style editions of this
map published prior to the outbreak of WW2 (index sheet).
- approx. 140 of the German editions of the
same map. They are re-printed variants of pre-WW2 Polish
maps by WIG, new sheets based on unpublished Polish materials and those
produced and updated from German air photography.
German military-geographic town plans (Mil-Geo Pläne) of a few
Polish town plans, printed on the reverse of some Mil-Geo Grossblatt
(1:100,000) sheets:
- Lemberg (approx. II.1944) -
printed on the reverse of the no-longer useful Osteuropa 1:300,000
sheet, X53 Starodub
- Stanisławów
- scan of the same plan available from the collection of the Library of
Congress, this one however in higher resolution (600 dpi) and
undamaged.
over 30 sheets of a very appealing, Austro-Hungarian map called
"Krakau - plan of the stronghold surroundings", (Festungs-umgebungs-plan von Krakau),
scale 1:10,000, dated 1899 - 1904.
several sheets of a Deutsche Karte 1:50,000, mainly
from the west of Poland, and a few sheets covering Germany. They are
both sheets we already have had, but now scanned in the Library of
Congress with much better scanner, or sheets which have been missing
altogether.
In the German Uebersichtskarte von Mitteleuropa 1:300,000 series,
we scanned three manuscript sheets - Leutschau,Warschau i Allenstein from a new, never
produced variant, a "Baustoffskarte Polen" . Unfortunately, they're not
originals, but post-WW2 copies, lacking in sharpness, interesting
nevertheless from the historical point of view.
A book in Polish, dated 1939, "Szlachta zagrodowa we wschodnich powiatach
Wołynia i Polesia" (Polish gentry in Volhynia & Polesie (Polesye)
- text in Polish (pdf, 71 Mb!)
- this is the first one of about 50 publications, mostly related to
cartography, which we managed to scan courtesy of the Library of
Congress.
Last but not least,
information on still inactive Messtischblatt / Topographische Karte
maps: the work is still in progress and we will update you as soon as
the maps are available again.
KuK NYPL 400dpi http://maps.mapywi g.org/m/K.u.K._map s/series/075K/400d pi_NYPL/12_XXX_Kab ola_Polyana_(Ungar n)_1907_400dpi_NYP L1226547.jpg should be 13 XXX Kabola Polyana, which when updated, currently
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
