Well, I'm not talking about the Russian topos. If you browse through some of the individual countries list, there seems to be some stuff at 50k and 250k scale from some of the countries. I did previously get a set of 50k and 250k for South Africa, but the rest of Africa I'm still looking for.
Calibrated Russian Topos of Africa for Mac & PC
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luangwablondes
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Contact MadMappers directly. They helped me with some topo maps a few years ago. Quite helpful.
craig
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Graham,
Have a look at Openstreetmap.org. It includes pavement, dirt, biking, biking, hiking, and ferries. It aims at being an open source Navtech replacement. Great project, with all sorts of tools, developer, and geospatial professionals supporting it.
Craig
Found a couple links....
First is a US Army guide to the Soviet maps.
Second is some site, might be the same stuff.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/pdf/soviet.pdf
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/maps/keymap/mapkey.htm
geovalue
Adventurer
Navigation and Mapping in Africa
We have just completed driving 80,000km around Africa. We used 2 mapping systems. Tracks4Africa is excellent if you stay on their routes. It is especially good for southern and eastern Africa but limited for North and West Africa.
We used the Operational Navigation Charts (ONC) maps prepared by and published by the USA Defence Mapping Agency now publicly available through several distributors and everything is in English. Each required map was scanned and digitized and loaded into our laptop with the appropriate file format. We used Memory Map as the software package which has a calibration module and is very user friendly, easy to use and compatible with Garmin. Using the 2 systems gave us complete coverage of Africa. The ONC maps were amazing accurate and allowed us to navigate safely through very remote areas. If anyone is interested in more details they can contact us.
There is some more information available on our website
Janet
We have just completed driving 80,000km around Africa. We used 2 mapping systems. Tracks4Africa is excellent if you stay on their routes. It is especially good for southern and eastern Africa but limited for North and West Africa.
We used the Operational Navigation Charts (ONC) maps prepared by and published by the USA Defence Mapping Agency now publicly available through several distributors and everything is in English. Each required map was scanned and digitized and loaded into our laptop with the appropriate file format. We used Memory Map as the software package which has a calibration module and is very user friendly, easy to use and compatible with Garmin. Using the 2 systems gave us complete coverage of Africa. The ONC maps were amazing accurate and allowed us to navigate safely through very remote areas. If anyone is interested in more details they can contact us.
There is some more information available on our website
Janet
JRhetts
Adventurer
If you look on the Madmappers web site they offer a Cyrillic 'decoder' sheet. This will not make use totally easy, but you can avail yourself of this tremendous resource. Click on one of the blue "more details' buttons, and it will get you there. [I am appending a low res screen shot to this post.]
Just this evening I downloaded several maps of Liberia, where I spent 5 years in the 1960's - before the civil war - and i can report that these maps are pretty damn good for even such an out of the way place as Liberia. Wow did the memories come flooding back about making our way to places we knew only the name of and had NO maps whatsoever at the time. Sure would have loved to have had these!!!
gjackson, thanks so much for posting this resource.
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Reading Russian is easier than it looks at first glance! I learned in a few weeks in high school, and can still parse Cyrillic street signs* 20 years later despite never having learned to speak Russian per se.
Especially if you don't need to know vocabulary, just sound out the phonetics for locals, enough that people recognize town names and correct your pronunciation (or so you can cross-reference between a Russian map and English book etc.). I would be happy to organize an hour-long course on this for next year's Overland Expo, or find the right pro teacher. It might be interesting to have a whole curriculum of language primer classes or foreign-language maps by continent etc.
Cheers - Isaac in SF
* By the way, if you learn the Cyrillic letters you can unpack other languages too, like Greek, enough to find useful stuff like this:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1/2928041-Farmakeio-Athens.jpg
Especially if you don't need to know vocabulary, just sound out the phonetics for locals, enough that people recognize town names and correct your pronunciation (or so you can cross-reference between a Russian map and English book etc.). I would be happy to organize an hour-long course on this for next year's Overland Expo, or find the right pro teacher. It might be interesting to have a whole curriculum of language primer classes or foreign-language maps by continent etc.
Cheers - Isaac in SF
* By the way, if you learn the Cyrillic letters you can unpack other languages too, like Greek, enough to find useful stuff like this:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1/2928041-Farmakeio-Athens.jpg
We did this where I work...we have a lot of world travelers for business, so set up a bunch of 1-3 hr 'Business language and ethics' classes...French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian pretty much covered it for us, and people could basically spend a day learning the basics of what they needed - we also included customs, which would be helpful in an expo-related course.
We were lucky in that we had staff from those countries come around a lot, plus a very multicultural local staff, so it was easy to get lecturers...I'm sure you can find the same at the Overland Expo to set something up.