22 April 2013 - general update
Posted by marekz on 04/22/2013 20:15
1 A lot of (relatively) smaller updates:
- a new index sheet in Mapster, for German 1:25,000 maps of Central / East Europe from the times of WW1. Currently comfortably occupied by approximately 18 sheets. Great start, another 1000 - 2000 sheets, and we should have a fairly decent coverage.
- Austro-Hungarian maps: we have added the missing sheets of the 1:115,000 maps of Galizien und Lodomerien from mid-19th century, and a full set of (approx. 30 sheets) of an earlier (end of 18th / beginning of 19th century), of a so-called "Map by Liesganik", scale 1:288,000. We have also added several sheets of Austro-Hungarian 1:25,000 from the area of "Lesser Poland" (Malopolska), west and east of Krakow (not the city itself). All those maps available, for now, on the Austro-Hungarian sub-page, while the Austro-Hungarian 1:300,000 sheets have been "outsourced" to Mapster.
- Thanks to the help we got from the friends in Prague, we received over 20 sheets of Grossblatt maps (German 1:100,000), mainly from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria, as well as one, probably last edition of Grossblatt 69a Leslau, dated January 1945, from Poland
- A few dozen of Bildplan and Bildskizze (German air-photo maps), scale 1:25,000 at 600 dpi have been added. Despite their fairly reasonable file size (approx. 20 - 26 Mb), they're at 600 dpi resolution, so try NOT to open them in the browser, download the scans to the computer first. These maps have been divided in Mapster into three separate index sheets to match their numbering:
as per Messtischblatt sheet lines
as per WIG 1:25,000 sheet lines
as per 1/4 of WIG 1:100,000 maps (This edition is probably dated 1939).
- We have received a German index sheet of Polish 1:25,000 WIG "maps, suitable for directing artillery fire". For the current day purposes... let's just say they show "new editions" of WIG maps.
- ... and it was printed on the reverse of a WIG 1:25,000 sheet, Pas 45 Słup 42 E Deraźne, from 1938 (24 MB, 600 dpi)
Several Messtischblatt (Topographische Karte) sheets from Poland (3176, 3183, 3193, 27107) and Czechoslovakia (6570, 6645, 6764, 6765, 6863, 6865, 6869, 6870, 6871, 6968, 6969, 6970)
- and last, but not least, a very unusual map, scale 1:25,000, courtesy of Mr Alexandr Koroliov, Pas 37 Słup 40 D Różana (300 dpi, approx. 6.1 MB). A file definitely worth seeing...