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Where's the JavaScript ? Your Web browser does not have JavaScript enabled or does not support JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript on your Web browser to properly view this Web site, or upgrade to a Web browser that does support JavaScript; Firefox , Safari , Opera , Chrome or a version of Internet Explorer newer then version 6. Welcome Map Archive of Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny 1919 - 1939 Non-commercial project with scans of maps and geographic materials published by the Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny (WIG), 1919 - 1939. Recognition for our work. More here . 22 April 2020 - map update 1 There has been a period since beginning of this year, when the English page of the mapywig.orgg has not been updated at all, while, in the meantime, we have added quite a few new maps. So, to catch up... 1. Courtesy of State Archive Poznań, Poland: - approx. 20 sheets of an "Atlas" called: Silesiae id est Ducatus Silesiae (...) , dated approx. 1750 - approx. 230 sheets of the German 1:25,000 soil map (Bodenschaetzungskarte ) - approx. 1500 sheets of Messtischblat (Topographische Karte) , various editions, including a few interesting sheets with the max extent of a flooding (Hochwasser) in central/western Poland, following a particularly severe winter of 1939/40), as well as a few sheets with hand-added updates (Merkblatt). 2. From the Library of Congress, Washington - approx. 100 arkuszy of a Russian & Soviet one-verst map (1:42 000) - Lithuania and (pre-WW2) north-eastern Poland. Some sheets stamped with original "Archiwum W.I.G." (WIG Archive). - 8 sheets (incomplete) of a Russian "Topographic Map of the Vilna Gouvernment" dated 1836 - 12 sheets of the German road map of Finland (Finnland: Strassenkarte) , mostly in 1:200,000. Maps come from the mil-geo publication: „Militärgeographische Angaben über Finnland” dated 1941 (the publication itself can be downloaded from the DE-literature folder . - a few Finnish town plans from the above publication. 3. Literature - also from the collection of the Library of Congress: - a few editions of the MITTEILUNGEN des Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme dated 1939 - 1943. - a few brochures dated 1943/44, prepared for the eventuality of Allied's invation / landing in the Balkans (Yugoslavia and Albnia), - „Militärgeographische Angaben über Finnland” dated 1941, already mentioned above 4. From our own collection: - 170 sheets of the British copy (MDR 652) of Bulgarian maps, re-scaled to 1:40,000, dated 1944 - approx.140 sheets of the British map of Malta , 1:2,500 (from our own collection) 5. From McMaster University, Canada, jointly scanned by The University of Alberta , and originally most sheets from the collection of prof. Bogdan Zaborski. Some more information about him - in Polish) can be found in this PDF , courtesy of the przez Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw. - approx. 400 sheets of the Topographische Karte (Messtischblatt) from the area of western and central-north Poland, plus approx. 130 sheets from our own collection - approx. 1500 sheets, British, American (and several French) , covering the area of Germany within post-WW2 borders. Older edition, dated 1943 - 1944 are re-printed copies of, sometimes, rather old editions of German Topographische Karte (Messtischblatt). From 1944 onwards, most editions were updated from air photography. The series is called, interchangably (sometimes) as GSGS 4414, and AMS M 841, elsewhere GSGS 4414 (AMS M841) or AMS M841 (GSGS 4414). Several sheets prepared for and / or published by the French Service Géographique des Forces Françaises en Allemagn. Later, post-WW2 editions produced under the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), although the bulk of the sheets are the work of AMS, for USAREUR ( United States Army Europe ). In time, also (west) German istitutions participated in the series, particularly the Land Survey Offfice (LSO) based in Frankfurt a.M., later incorporated into the Instituts für Erdmessung (Institute for Geodesy). marekz on April 22 2020 · 0 Comments · 85 Reads · 31st December 2019 - last update nowosci (this year): Several new items in the Literature section , most importantly, German Military topography journals from 1942 - Mitteilungen des Chef des Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesens. The set is incomplete, but as usual, we will try to locate missing issues and index sheets From the collection of the State Archive, Poznan, Poland, approx. 40 sheets (plus an index sheet) of the first Polish multi-sheet 1:100,000 produced soon after WW1 (the Great War by the Zakład Kartograficzny D.O. Gen. Poznań in 1919 - 1920. Mapy obejmować miały tereny The maps covered the areas fought over by Poland and Germany after end of WW1, i.e. East Prussia, Pommern/Pomorze, Wielkopolska/Provinz Posen, Schlesien/Śląsk. All map sheets come from the collection of rev. Kozierowski, which was passed on to the State Archive, Poznan. A few individual, rare maps: Oboz cwiczebny (Training ground) Pohulanka, by Vilna, 1:25,000, 1926/1930 . The map we've been trying to locate for several years and finally gave up. Well, almost. Mapa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i Krajów Ościennych (Map of the Republic of Poland & Neighouring Coutries) in several sheets of 1:750,000 scale, published by WIG in mid-1920. This "edition", dated approx. 1924 is incomplete (missing Eastern Poland), glued together sklejone of several individual sheets based on the original, Austrian 1:750,000 maps. As the 600 dpi is large, approx. 120 Mb , we've made it available in 300 dpi too . And what the full, wall-sized variant looked like, can be seen on a photo fished out of the Poland's National Digital Archive . few other WIG-related photos can be seen here. A German "MAP OF RAILROADS and steamships in EUROPE" dated approx. 1870: "EISENBAHN-Dampfschiffrouten-Karte von EUROPA". The map was known and republished many times over well into 20th century. This edition howeve is substantially larger (180 cm x 137 cm), good enough for a photo-wallpaper. 600 dpi file is approx. 215 Mb , so we have also made available a more reasonable 300 dpi (80 Mb) , and for those who just want to appreciate the looks, a 100 dpi variant (7.6 Mb) , which should open in most, if not all web browsers). We have also added several dozen original index sheets, which correspond to various map series. As there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of index sheets floating around, there is no space to list those added here. They can be found at the bottom of individual index sheets, e.g. WIG 1:100 000 , as well as at the bottom of map lists, e.g. WIG 1:25,000, old edition . More index sheets will be added within the next couple of weeks. marekz on December 31 2019 · 0 Comments · 316 Reads · 1st December 2019 - literature update eLiterature Several new items in the "Literature” section: in Polish: Courtesy of Mr Grzegorz Słomczyński, a paper by his grandfather, a known WIG cartographer, written in Italy, approx. 1...