================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ 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 --