Just checked a small section of the Manchester map,,it's full of mistakes,,,,Why not do what the Germans did in 37 and buy guide books and AtoZ's????,,,The map on the left is a section of the Russian map,the one on the right is the 1960 AtoZ of the same area,,Spot the errors......

Not a fair comparison, tuffy, the Sov map is 25000, A to Z is at a greater scale and streets are exaggerated even further to show more detail.

Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad

Not a fair comparison, tuffy, the Sov map is 25000, A to Z is at a greater scale and streets are exaggerated even further to show more detail.

Lets face it BL,most of the Sov Grunts,couldn't read a map anyway!

Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad

Not a fair comparison, tuffy, the Sov map is 25000, A to Z is at a greater scale and streets are exaggerated even further to show more detail.

Not only that, but the Sov map is 1975, so it may be fairer to compare both maps to the 1969-1970 OS 1:2500 map - viewable, along with the Sov map, on old maps Old-Maps - the online repository of historic maps - maps page

There's little point in quibbling over minor details. It was a huge project they did and done well enough to be more than adequate for it's job. Credit to them for an intell coup. I would like to hope that we had something similar by way of intell about the soviets.

So that we wouldn't have got lost, had we invaded?

Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad

It won't surprise you that we were doing exactly the same in East Germany, down to measuring the size of tree-trunks.

What was the reason for that?

Originally Posted by brettarider

What was the reason for that?

To decide which bits of woodland we could smash through with tanks.

Cheers. Wasn't sure in case it was for similar reasons about taking cores on the Normandy beaches. As a side note I remember seeing large scale air maps of certain eastern euro countries in a large map store in the late 90's

Hey Jarrod, your house is labelled "зад бандита" what's that all about?