I get the impression that the Web sites where Soviet Military Topographic Map Sets are collected, slowly disappear from the web. I wonder, if OSGeo.org could give these really nice maps a new home. I found some remaining material on the web:
Map coverage (latest?):
* http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060523215417/http://library.ucsc.edu/maps/ucsmg/soviet.jpg
Some links:
- http://en.poehali.org/maps
- Topomaps eu
- Soviet Maps resources
- http://library.ucsc.edu/maps
/ucsmg/soviet.html - http://library.stanford.edu
/depts/branner/collections /sovietmil.html - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
/EART/x-ussr/ukraine.html - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
/EART/x-ussr/russia.html
Soviet Topographic Map Symbols
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
/EART/pdf/soviet.pdf A good question is of course the copyright…
Edit 2015: Interesting write-up by Wired about the maps:
I just found these related blog entries from The Cartography Blog:
http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/soviet-topographic-maps.html
http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/soviet-topographic-maps-update.html
Some downloadable, sort of geocoded soviet topo maps are available here: http://www.poehali.org/en/maps.html
They offer GIF files and the corner coordinates values in LatLong.
mapstor.com sells those maps at a low price on about 11 dvds with georeference. poehali.org announces the same data for free download one map at a time.
OverlandResource.com has collected the complete set of Soviet Military South America maps and is offering them for pretty cheap download. It looks like they got them from poehali.org, and they are georeferenced. I wonder about the copyright issue?
A new site discovered…: http://maps.vlasenko.net/soviet-military-topographic-map/