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Subject: Russian maps
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005
From: Brendan Richard Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


I have just visited a fantastic map shop in Riga, Latvia.

Jana Seta
Elizabetes Iela 83-85
Riha
LV-1005
Latvia

ph 7240894
fx 7828039
email [log in to unmask]
www.karsuveikals.lv
open M-F 10am-7pm
Sat 10-5
closed sunday

They stock all Latvian mapping (10k and up), and much for Estonia and
Lithuania, besides the normal european (and Russian) travel maps etc.
Also have much soviet mapping of the Baltics and beyond from 1:10,000 city
plans to 1:1M maps. If they don't have current Estonian or Lithuanian maps
they can order them in. and at a mere 1 or 2 Lats per sheet (1Lat = GBP1)
for Soviet era mapping at any scale!

Staff spoke some English but were very knowledgeable about what is
available. They reproduce pre-war mapping in colour for the Baltics too if
they don't have the original sheets. I got a nice 1:75,00 facsimile plan
of an area of interest for 1 Lat.

On their wall they have Russian 1:1M plastic relief maps of europe
arranged over a partial sphere, so it appears that a part of a giant globe
is sticking out of the wall. Great effect just as you walk in the door!

Ask them to fax you list of their Soviet city plans or their index sheets
for Latvia/Baltics.

Brendan Whyte
Uni Melbourne


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