--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:50:16 -0500 From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Lhasa-Sikkim routes <fwd> Sender: ahudson <[log in to unmask]> Thanks, Kent. we have here at NYPL the Russian 200K and the JOGs. Also some period atlases, 1920s -30s with older borders. Overrun with turistas and shoppers today, so no chance to work on the solution to this little mystery. Alice Alice C. Hudson Chief, Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html Johnnie Sutherland To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask] cc: uga.edu> Subject: Lhasa-Sikkim routes <fwd> Sent by: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask] UGA.EDU> 11/29/2002 03:02 PM Please respond to Kent Lee --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:56:44 -0600 From: Kent Lee <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Lhasa-Sikkim routes Sender: Kent Lee <[log in to unmask]> Dear Ilene, Alice: Interesting queries from your patrons. Here are the modern topo map options to cover the route from Lhasa to Sikkim, in order of cheapest to most expensive (please note that all Indian and Chinese maps which would pertain to this area are classified and commercially unobtainable): 1. 1:500k US (TPC): 4 sheets required 2. 1:500k Russian: 3 sheets required 3. 1:250k US (JOG): 7 sheets required, at most two could be sourced because of current restrictions. However some libraries may have old AMS (US Army) 1:250k maps from the 1940s or 1950s available. 4. 1:200k Russian: 13 sheets or so. The Russian 200k maps are the best commercially-available cartographic technical option in this part of the world, unless one moves to satellite imagery (many commercial options) or declassified Cold-War aerial photography (from the USGS EROS Center). I think I can say this unequivocally. For older maps made by British or other explorers prior to WWII, I am pretty ignorant. I would be suprised if complete coverage existed along the route. Probably your best sources would be the British Library or LC. The National Library of China almost certainly would have something interesting here, as well. Good luck, and let us know if we can be of assistance. We already have much of the Russian material in digital vector form. Best, Kent Kent D. Lee President/CEO East View Cartographic, Inc. 3020 Harbor Lane N. Minneapolis, MN 55447 USA Tel: 763-550-0961 Fax: 763-559-2931 Email: [log in to unmask] URL: www.eastview.com, www.cartographic.com --- End Forwarded Message --- --- End Forwarded Message ---