Public domain Soviet maps of the world
During the initial planning and survey phase of the Kuppam project a few years ago, I discovered it was nearly impossible to obtain high resolution topographic maps (or any other sort) for rural India. The government-operated Survey of India has high quality data, but it hasn’t generally made its way into the equivalent of US Geological Survey 15-minute quadrangles on paper or the DTM / DEM data sets. The best I was able to come up with was some old Soviet military maps from the 1950s.
Hadn’t thought about it for a while, but I see someone else has found out about these:
Paul sez, “Soviets mapped the entire world at various scales between 1940 and 1990.In some areas the Russian maps are still the best available maps. Amazingly, none of the maps are copyright.
BoingBoing, Soviet Military Maps of Britain
Tags: maps, mapping, india, ruraldevelopment
April 21st, 2007 at 5:19 am
I am a member of a worldwide gaming group centred around the 2nd WW.
I am at present making maps and scripting these maps for a game called Blitzkrieg.
The maps I am dong is part of a hypothetical thread where the Germans actually manage to win the battles for Moscow and manage to advance to the Urals.
My problem is that most military maps for the period 1941/42 end at Moscow.
Do you have access to a map that shows the area WEST of the Urals towards Moscow?
September 6th, 2008 at 2:38 am
I discovered it was nearly impossible to obtain high resolution topographic maps.