[OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Wed Dec 22 19:01:49 GMT 2010


On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:46:36 +0000
Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 22/12/2010 09:02, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> 
> > I would also point out that in the time of the Cold War the USSR
> > completely mapped the UK from orthophotos, with a little ground
> > work by the spy network.
> > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209137/The-Soviet-road-map-shows-USSR-planned-invade-Manchester.html
> > I have read scholarly articles on this set of maps, but can't
> > provide a link at present.
> 
> That article says much of it was copied from OS maps or road atlases 
> etc. It also says "But there's so much extra information, it would be 
> fair to assume that they were able to gather a considerable amount of 
> intelligence on the ground."
> 

There is / was on the web a scholarly interpretation of the full set of
maps. The conclusion of that was not the same as the journalist's or
the editor's. Someone on this list will have the link to a full
discussion.




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