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About the Award
mapywig.org has been awarded a medal commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Polish Military Geographic Service (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny, WIG)

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The text of the award:
I have the great pleasure to inform you that the Kapituła Medalu Pamiątkowego (Chapter of the Commemorative Medal) has, unanimously, decided to honor the participants of the mapywig.org project, and in particular, Mr Tomasz Pluciński, with a Commemorative Medal on the 90th Anniversary of the Polish Military Geographic Service.

The medal is a token of appreciation for your work promoting the Geographic Service heritage and, in particular, the part played by the Military Geographic Institute. I would like to emphasize that your effort is greatly appreciated in military circles. 100 medals were struck, numbered 001 through 100. The medal for mapywig.org, numbered ‘010’ reflects the importance of your project in our eyes (…)”

Robert Wł. Bauer
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Here is a brief summary of Inicjatywa Sala 216 (“Room 216 Initiative”):

It has been set up by a group of Polish Army officers with a passion to preserve and share documents of the Geographic Service of the Polish Army, in particular, those related to the WIG. A government building on Aleje Jerozolimskie 97 in Warsaw which, currently, houses the Office of Polish Military Geography was, in former times, WIG headquarters. In those days, Sala 216, “Room 216” of the building was a library, a briefing room, and a place where official meetings and ceremonies at the Military Geographic Institute were held.

More information on the virtual Sala 216 and some of the exhibits available can be found here in Polish.
You can access it in any language via Google Translator here.
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08/02/2023 00:50
Glad to see you back, Marek!

08/25/2022 15:09
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

01/22/2022 22:50
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

03/21/2020 14:55
What's up, Marek? What are you working on? Hope all is OK.

01/26/2019 14:42
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

12/04/2017 15:22
peut-on obtenir la carte détaillée de la frontière Est suite au traité de Brest-litovsk ? merci d'avance

09/10/2017 04:54
Can I get some guidance on the projection that WIG cartographers used on the 1 to 100,000 maps?

04/02/2017 23:15
osowiec

03/17/2017 11:34
@JMisiewicz I tried to send an e-mail, but got an auto-response: "The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found" If you want to get in touch, please use e-mail (see left)

03/16/2017 18:10
I think we need to drill into this... Please check for my e-mail in your inbox! Smile