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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, orWelcome 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 . 3rd - 7th May 2024 - mapster down All map files in mapster (igrek.amzp.pl) are (temporarily) unavailable, courtesy of our hosting provider who, from time to time, likes to keep us on our toes. It’s a relatively minor technical problem though and the person who can fix it is very likely to do it next week. An update: map files are back online, though it might take a couple of hours to have all of them available. marekz on May 03 2024 · 0 Comments · 34 Reads · 14th August 2023 - map update An additional update for 1:42 000 (one-verst), approx. 40 sheets from one of our helpful users . marekz on August 14 2023 · 0 Comments · 2188 Reads · 30th July 2023 - map update A small update after a short break: - approx. 200 - 300 sheets of Russian (and Soviet) ’one-verst maps’ (1:42 000) , mainly from the area of the Baltic states, showed up on our map lists already, but they never surfaced on our index sheet. It’s quite possible it was due to some encoding error r elated to Cyrillic fonts (OUR fault!). Having ’added’ those sheets to the index, we also took some time to fix various errors in this map series and addes some latin, historical (and current) place names. On top of which, we added several sheets from the digital library of Polona. As a matter of fact, majority of them were already available a few years ago courtesy of Humboldt University a few years ago, but those extra sheets are well-scanned, 600 dpi, and include a few ’new’ editions too. We do not expect the collection of 1:42 000 to grow soon, it might increase some time next year though. - a few town plans from the same digital library (’Polona’ ) - one sheet of German 1:25,000 air-photomap (Bildplan), Wolsztyn (Wollstein) - courtesy, as usual, of Wydziaà ‚owe Archiwum Kartograficzne / Biblioteka Collegium Geographicum, Uniwersytet A. Mickiewicza, Poznaà „, Poland marekz on July 30 2023 · 0 Comments · 3361 Reads · 8th July 2022 - map and literature update 2 From the collection of the University of Berkeley, a few hundred German & Austrian 1:75,000 maps which cover the area of Czechia and Austria , Hungary and Slovakia , and severa original Czech sheets . Unfortunately, all maps were scanned at 300 dpi, so this is the only resolution available. Several town plans of Eastern Europe, mainly from the collection of ’polona’, digital arm of the National Library of Poland . One of the more important plans is a plan of Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw: Sperrgebiet / Dzielnicy à »ydowskiej, 1:2,500 scale. A surprise from Mr Brendon Whyte, National Library of Australia, who shared 2 maps of Russia. The first is one we already have from previous editions, this one, however, Jan. 1944, showd the amin borders of the Reichskommissariat Ostland i Reichskommissariat Ukraine . Another map, from 1970s’ Soviet Union, to is a wall map of Old Rus State ; it relates to the debate on the margins of current Russian war against Ukraine, about who was who ruled whom, and when, etc. As always, in the process of year-long spring-cleaning, we managed to consolidate, to some degree, various small-scale German maps of WW2. Ultimately, all irregular and joint editions of ’Ãœbersichtskarte’ and ’Operationskarten’, 1:1 mln scale, ended up in one list . We will not create an index sheet though. The maps were compiled for various military compaigns, so individual sheets overlap significantly. Some of those irregular editions are mentioned in the original index sheets which are available below the map list. On the subject of index sheets, we have added another few dozen of original German index sheets, they can be found below individual map series. And finally... courtesy of a person who wished to remain anonymous, we managed to scan unique brochurers called ’Kartenbriefe’ , issue 20 - 29, with an overview of developments and progres in German war-time military cartography. Some brochures are short of index sheets, as they were re-used by US and British post-WW2 military cartography services and libraries. Fortunately, we managed to link a few loose index sheets in those brochures to one of the last of them, i.e. Kartenbriefe Nr 31. So, for a completed package, we miss only the first few isues of Kartenbriefe. By the way, here’s the shortcut to the pdf files . And, a marginal note on Kartenbriefe: the issue of April 1943 included samples of a German 1:25,000 experimental photo-map (Bildplankarte) from the area north of Kyiv, Sample 1 , Sample 2 . A few other sheets of this photo-maps are available on this list under the name of ’ Bildplankarte ’ marekz on July 08 2022 · 0 Comments · 4025 Reads · 7th June 2022 - map update test An update from the collection of the digital National Library of Poland (polona.pl) - approx. 250 sheets of the Reymann’s topographische Special-Karte von Central-Europa (1:200 000) , various editions, from 1830s up to 1910. Please note some files are VERY large, i.e. over 100 Mb! - approx. 60 sheets of the Karte des westlichen Russlands (1:100 000) around 1910 - 1918 - approx. 40 sheets of the ’Topographische Uebersichtskarte des Deutschen Reiches’ , 1:200 000 - approx. 40 sheets of the Uebersichtskarte von Mitteleuropa) , mainly WW2 editions - several joint sheets of the same 1:300,000 maps, dated 1914 - 1916 ( Some files are VERY large, i.e.100 - 400 Mb! ) - approx. 20 sheets of the German 1:25,000 map (Messtischblatt) - a few German Kreiskarten and Umgebungskarten , 1:100,000 scale - a few sheets of the Generalstabskarte / Karte des deutchen Reiches , 1:100,000 - a few German maps of the USSR, WW2 ( Russland 1:100 000 ), and a few joint and single sheets of the Russland 1:50 000. - a few German 1:500,000 maps (Weltkarte 1:500 000) Generally, most of the sheets we already have had from other collections, but the new versions are all 600 dpi. marekz on June 07 2022 · 0 Comments · 4722 Reads · 18th April 2022 - map update 1. Courtesy of our hosting provider and their tireless efforts to help us more and more, the main contact channnel with us, i.e. e-mail (info, etc.), will cease to be available, at least for some time (for urgent questions and problems, shoutbox, on the right-hand side, is available). 2. We have added several dozen town plans (Polish and Ukrainian): - from the collection of Mr Hubisz: Jawor (Jauer) , Warszawa , Bytom (Beuthen) , and a German, WW2 plan of à »yrardow , dated mid-1944 (possibly the only plan I have seen where Herman Göring Strasse cuts across 1st May Street). There’s also a German, WW2 copy of a pre-war, Polish 1:25,000 (Lemberg-Dublany), also dated 1944. - a few dozen other town plans ,...