[OSM-talk] Tactical mapping in Ukraine?

Tomas Straupis tomasstraupis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 19:21:01 UTC 2022


2022-04-08, pn, 21:52 Mark Wagner rašė:
> "The military" may, but the Soviet Union was infamous for treating maps
> as highly-classified secrets, to the point that the best available maps
> of Moscow were those in the US embassy.  I would not be surprised to
> learn that that mindset has carried over such that the generals have
> high-quality maps of Ukraine, but the average soldier is depending on
> Google or OSM.

  Some excerpts of captured topographic maps from invaders field
commanders have been published.
  OSM data is much better/usable.

-- 
Tomas



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