24 December 2010 - Christmas
Posted by marekz on 12/24/2010 10:58
We wish you a quiet Christmas time spent, if possible, at home and with
your family.
And for well-behaved children we have some presents. Enjoy.
Plan
of Warsaw, dated 1932, marked as "secret", with a list of
industrial and military related sites. For those users who don't shy
away from the cyrilic...
Town plan
of Sokal, probably pre-1918
German
town plan of Pińsk, dated 1941 / 43 courtesy of www.wwii-photos-maps.com. Low
resolution, but perfectly legible.
Plan
of the City of Danzig, 1933. Well-worn, but legilbe and rather
pretty (colour). Please note it's a large file, approx. 34 Mb.
The last variant of the Tatra mountains by WIG (Polish side of the
border, mainly), scale 1:20,000, Tatr w skali 1:20 tyś, ski
edition, two sheets, zipped together 400
dpi (approx. 80 Mb) and 200
dpi, but very legible anyway (approx. 40 Mb).
Poligon
Biedrusko (Firing Range north of Poznan, Poland), another variant
of a WIG map, scale 1:25, dated 1928.
Four very rare sheets of Poland and Neighbouring Coutries, 1:1,000 000
(mln), made by WIG in Edinburgh, 1943.
NW
WARSZAWA-POZNAN-GDYNIA
NE
WARSZAWA-WILNO
SW
WARSZAWA-KRAKOW
SE
WARSZAWA-LWOW
Wünschelberg
(Radków),at the foothills of Góry Stołowe (Table Mountains, originally,
in German, Heuscheuergebirge). A nice, black&white map from
1925, scale 1:10,000, probably a re-scaled German Grundkarte in 1:5,000)
German
map of Leningrad, scale 1:10,000 (the sheet shows just a small part
of the city, to the north-east), based on Sovie 1:25,000 map from 1939
and German air photos approx. end of 1942.
Austrian
1:75,000 map showing the area around a town of Kraśnik, south of
Lublin, eastern Poland. A large sheet showing administrative
borders, date unknown, probably around 1917. A large file, approx. 45
Mb.
Tom
5 Bibljoteki Służby Geograficznej, "O sposobach przedstawiania terenu
na mapach", [Vol. 5 of the Library of Geographic Service, "On the map-based
terrain presentation"], in Polish, dated 1930, by kind permission from
Mr Zenon Kozieł, Head of Department of Cartography, Remote
Sensing and GIS, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. File in
pdf format, approx. 40 Mb. If you prefer, you can download a much
lighter (approx. 4 Mb) version of the same document, in (...) dejavu
format from a digital library: www.kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra
Please note that all the above files are here to stay and they will
become available from their relevant sub-pages, when they get updated
in 2011.