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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:34:36 -0700
From: Jamel Mindel Ostwald <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Place-Name Searchable Maps of Europe on CD or Web?

I'm a ABD student of history and I'm currently tracing a number of military
campaigns for the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1713 in western
Europe. Reading through the contemporary correspondence, the army movements
are described in some detail, but there are very few detailed maps that I
can consult to follow the movements. Right now I have a few large
small-scale maps of each theater (the Low Countries, Germany - Rhine,
northern Italy, Iberia) which I must scour over to find small places which
are named in the campaign narratives (in the 19th century the French Depot
de Guerre map a number of maps for each theater, but even these do not show
all of the places mentioned in the text. Does anyone know of any CD-ROM
packages (or on the Web) that would cover these regions in a fair amount of
detail? I need to locate minor rivers and sometimes what are today only
small villages - villages which I cannot find, for example, on my 1965
National Geographic map of northern Italy (1:330,560). I would like a
program that allows you to type in a place name & it searches its gazeteer
& and zooms to that place on the map. Does such a thing exist or will I be
forced to scour large, unwieldy flat maps? I've looked on some of the Web
map links & haven't found anything like this yet. Any help would be
appreciated.

Jamel Ostwald
Ohio State University