Maps
in the News: Warsaw and Hamburg
Warsaw,
Poland is in the news today as the first stop for the President as he travels
to Europe for the 2017 G20 Summit. The
Group of Twenty will meet in Hamburg, Germany beginning on July 7.
The
Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) has a
large collection of maps of Poland and Germany.
The GRMC includes a collection of maps of Warsaw, many of which are
published in Polish. Some of the maps
are published in Polish, English, Russian, and German. The maps include street maps, tourist maps,
and maps of the city center. A replica
of a bird’s-eye view map of Warsaw from 1780 is also available in the
collection. Most of the maps were
published by the communist state-owned cartographic company, Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo
Wydawnictw Kartograficznych.
The
Atlas Collection on the second floor of Bracken Library adjacent to the GRMC
also includes a number of Communist-era atlases of Poland. Poland:
A Historical Atlas provides maps about the history of the country. Environmental conditions and the conservation
of natural resources are the focus of Atlas
Zasobów, Walorów I Zagroźeń Środowiska Geograficznego Polski (Atlas of
Resources, Values, and Degradation of Geographical Environment of Poland).
The
city of Hamburg, Germany is incuded on the map, A Traveler’s Map of Germany, published by the National Geographic
Society and available from the GRMC. The
GRMC also includes street and tourist maps of Hamburg, Army Map Service city
plans from World War II, and a set of topographic maps of Hamburg. And the Atlas Collection includes road
atlases of Hamburg and Germany.
Custom
digital maps and map posters of Poland and Germany are also available for
download from the GRMC. The maps may be
used for educational research, reports and papers, or exhibits.
The
maps from the GRMC circulate for two weeks or longer. Atlases may be borrowed from the Library for
28 days or longer.
For
more information, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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