Maps

[Hellfish]

I love maps. Someone recently turned me on to a collection of 1:250,000 scale maps (JOG scale, for those in the know) the US Army made in the immediate post-war years. They're brilliant snapshots of very remote places around the world.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/

Specifically interesting:

Komsomolsk, Soviet Sibera: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/eastern_siberia/txu-oclc-6572926-nm53-6.jpg

Accra, Ghana: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/west_africa/txu-oclc-6595921-nb30-12-2nd-ed.jpg

A 1:5000 scale map of the Algerian town of Beni-Saf: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/algeria_city_plans/txu-oclc-6544660.jpg

Of course, they belong to the excellent Perry-Castañeda Map Library from the University of Texas, but I'd been going to the site for years and NEVER came across the topographic map section.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

Does anyone else have links to interesting map sites, especially for the more remote corners of the Earth?

[ramthor]

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I'm a map freak myself, and have used the U Texas libraries some years ago doing family research. You may know that UT has one of the largest map collections outside of the Smithsonian -- many of which exist nowhere else in the world.

You might browse this site when you have a chance:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

...he only posts when something worthwhile comes along, but includes histories and descriptions, and the open commentaries are worth your
time. Fascinating stuff, for me at least.

[el borracho]

Awesome site Ramthor. I found the Perry-Casteneda site a few years ago in my Air Force days. We needed to update our reference materials on the districts of Baghdad. Our CO wanted to call people at random offices across the country and get hardcopies of maps sent over (which would take days), meanwhile I just slid over to a computer and googled it and found that site right away.

[tornadoss]

An historical map







Surviving fragment of the first World Map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map) of Piri Reis (1513)http://skeptophrenic.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/000piril.jpg

[One Man Gang]

If you were part of the recent unpleasantness along the Annamese Cordillera, or just interested in the Vietnam War, this site has the 1:50000 tactical maps for virtually ALL of I Corps. I found these while doing research on my cousin who was KIA in June 1968, while serving in the 106mm Platoon, H&S, 1/9.

http://www.1stbattalion9thmarines.com/Vietnam/Map_Room/MapRoom.htm

Yes, I will post more on this as we get closer to the 41st anniversary of his death.

[Gianni7476]

I found these while doing research on my cousin who was KIA in June 1968, while serving in the 106mm Platoon, H&S, 1/9.

http://www.1stbattalion9thmarines.com/Vietnam/Map_Room/MapRoom.htm

Yes, I will post more on this as we get closer to the 41st anniversary of his death.

Sorry to hear that, RIP to him! Will eagerly await to read what you have found out during your research!

BTW nice maps.

[Hellfish]

If you were part of the recent unpleasantness along the Annamese Cordillera, or just interested in the Vietnam War, this site has the 1:50000 tactical maps for virtually ALL of I Corps. I found these while doing research on my cousin who was KIA in June 1968, while serving in the 106mm Platoon, H&S, 1/9.

http://www.1stbattalion9thmarines.com/Vietnam/Map_Room/MapRoom.htm

Yes, I will post more on this as we get closer to the 41st anniversary of his death.

Oddly enough, I was looking for 1:50000 maps of Vietnam over the weekend. They're a lot busier than I thought they'd be.

[Avon]

Hellfish, thank you so kindly for these URLs. These are some of the best map references I have ever seen.

Adrian

[Lethal Lou]

Here's a very interesting mix of maps and photos of abandoned and little known airfields . . . suitable for a wide variety of uses!

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/index.htm

[Freejumper]

any ideas where i can find E&E silk maps?

[Hellfish]

I'd imagine a militaria dealer.