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Subject: Maps of Poland and Belarus
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:40:07 +0200
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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New and interesting maps seen in Poland and Belarus.
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www.mapywig.org <http://www.mapywig.org/> is a website making accessible
scans of 1:300k, 1:100k and 1:25k Polish topographic maps from before
WW2. The site has Polish/English language options, and has indexes for
the series, as well as links to 400dpi scans of the sheets.
These indexes are also useful for working out what sheets to buy from
the two companies reproducing the maps on paper (Kartografia and Centrum
Kartografii below).
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Kartografia is a one-man (?) outfit reproducing inter-war Polish
topographic maps and city plans, and other interesting items.
PTR Kartografia
Ul. Wiejska 20/117
00-490 Warszawa
Poland
Ph 600 971161
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but the best contact seems to be a website run by a colleague of his who
does internet sales www.rewasz.com.pl <http://www.rewasz.com.pl/>
Maps produced are generally colour reproductions of old maps, with text
and city plans on the back (similar to Alan Godfrey’s reproductions of
English topo maps)
The two biggest sellers are:
- Polska 1939 mapa samochodowa. 1:1.25M. road map of Poland with its
pre-war boundaries.
Warszawa przedwojenna. Plan miasta z 1939 r. 1:20k plan of Warsaw at the
outbreak of the war
Other products include
- mapa powstania warszawskiego 1 viii - 2 x 1944. 1:15k plan of Warsaw
in WW2 showing the progress of the rising against the Nazis.
- Dawny Poznan. 1:10k street plan of Posen from 1917.
- Dawna Warszawa. 1:15k street plan of Warsaw from 1910.
- Stare Powazki. 1:2500 map of the main cemetery in Warsaw, with a list
of famous burials, dates of birth/death, field of endeavour and location.
- Plan Lwowa. Two street plans of Lviv/Lvov in the Ukraine, one of 1:15k
from 1931 and one of 1:17.5k from 1939.
- Okolice Komanczy I woli michowej, 1:40k. tourist topo map with much
extra toponymy added by an academic researcher interviewing aged locals
about the names of ridges, streams etc.
- Ustrzyki Gorne I okolice. 1:40k. tourist topo map with much extra
toponymy added by an academic researcher interviewing aged locals about
the names of ridges, streams etc. This area is just north of the
tripoint with Slovakia and Ukraine.
- Czeczenia 1:400k (ie Chechnyia), a modern map.
- Zabttkowe Cerkwie. Modern thematic map of old Poland showing the
locations of churches of Old Believers.
- Rus Zakarpacka 1:300k. Reproduction (?) of Polish map of ruthenia, the
‘tail’ of Czechoslovakia lost to the Ukraine after WW2.
- Bukowina 1:400k. Enlargement of an historical map of Bokovina, an area
between Galicia and Rumania.
- WIG (Wojskowego Instytutu Geograficznego) 1:100k topos. Polish army
topographic maps from the inter-war period reproduced with text/city
plans on the rear. Sometimes there are two maps back to back. Sometimes
they have been enlarged to 1:75k. Covers areas out to Vilnius (Wilno),
East Prussia, etc. Good source of Polish placenames for areas today in
Lithuania, Belarussia, etc.
- 1:25,000 4 sheets (so far) of the Danzig free state:
Gdansk 31/27E
Sopot 31/27B
Gdynia/Rumia 30/27G&H
Westerplatte 31/27F
all maps are 2-10 zloty each ($1-$5)
he has also reproduced some road maps of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw
(1815-1917) for a cartographic conference in Poland this month.
"mapa krolestwa Polskiego", 1:1M, c.1913.
"bite goscince krolestwa kongresowego" 1820-43, 1:1m.
and two of Poland 1918-39:
"mapa drog w polsce" 1:1.75M
"mapa samochodowa polski" being a flat version of the 1939 road map
listed above.
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Centrum Kartografii
04-398 warszawa
ul. Grochowska 258-260
ph/fx 22-813 8100
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these people produce 1:300,000 interwar-period coverage of all of Poland
inside it’s interwar boundaries.
They also reproduce four 1:25,000 sheets of Warsaw:
Zoliborz (ie NW) 1936. sh.39/32g
Mokotow (ie SE) 1931. sh.40/32b
Praga (ie NE) 1934. sh.39/32h
Wola (ie SW) 1931. sh 40/32a
price 4.50 and 5.90 zloty each (US$2-3)
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Demart’s historical atlases of Poland/world are very good for
information on Polish history, and feature maps of the Kingdom of
Poland/Lithuania, Napoleonic wars, WW1, WW2 (including the Warsaw
uprising, the battles of the Polish divisions in N. Africa and Italy, etc)
“Atlas Historyczny” by Julia Tazbir. 103pp. 2006
Isbn-10: 83-89239957 & isbn-13: 9788389239952
www.demart.com.pl
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paperback. 24 zloty.
Also in 3 volumes (for school use?) featuring a few extra maps in each
“do 1815 roku, skola ponadgimnazjalna” 2005. ISBN 8374270810
“szkola srednia 1815-1939” 2000. ISBN 8387137715
“szkola srednia od 1939 roku” 2004. ISBN 8389472511
17.90 zloty each.
There is also a hardback edition in a single volume with a gold-coloured
dustjacket for 60 zloty.
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Wydawnictwo "Marpress" Sp. z o.o.
ul. Targ Rybny 10B
80-838 Gda sk
Poland
tel / fax (0 58) 301-47-00
Reproduce the 1930s 1:100,000 Polish army topo maps as well, but only
the map itself, not the marginal information. They have 5 volumes of A4
folios, each with a text, and 10 or so map reproductions folded in the
rear cover. Retail is about 20 zloty each.
For details see
http://www.marpress.pl/?p=productsList&iCategory=7
<http://www.marpress.pl/?p=productsList&iCategory=7>
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Copernuicus produces excellent Polish street maps, featuring buildings,
bus routes, bus stops, and other necessary detail for the tourist or
researcher.
I recommend their 1:26,000 map of Warsaw (with a 1:12,500 enlargement of
the city centre)
www.ppwk.pl <http://www.ppwk.pl/>
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A very interesting item from Belarus
"Atlas Geografiya Belarusi 9 klas"
Minsk 2005
ISBN 985-6625-25-4
Paperback. In Belarussian
64pp colour thematic maps of Belarus, including caesium and strontium
radioactive contamination from Chernobyl as of 2001 and predicted levels
for 2016 and 2046.
cost: 4820 Belarussian rubles. (about US$2)
Highly recommended!
Dr Brendan Whyte
Geography Department
Faculty of Social Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
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