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As recently as the seventies, the former Institut Geographique Militaire in
Bruxelles was selling these older military topo. maps at those unusual scales.
Today, the mapping body has been renamed the "Institut Geographique National",
and most of its maps are ultra-modern and at the more conventional scales for
metric topo. maps.
Mike G.
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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Belgian 1;40,000 map scales
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Hi George,
They look Belgian - the inscription at the bottom of the Anvers one says
"Leve et nivele en 1863...Redige et grave in 1889...Equidistance de 5 metres
Revu sur le terrain en 1879 et 1892
Zincographie a l'Institut cartographique militaire, octobre 1893"
Also "mise a jour en 1892-1894" and "Grave par J B De La hoese, J Ongers, F
Deraedemacker et V Labarge
It has a small blue sticker on the basck indicating it's no.15 in a series.
Another odd feature is its folding, with the key, scale, folded off at the
bottom (it doesn't look like its bene re-folded. Odder still,it has no
boundary
on any but the south...the map goes all the way to the edge of the paper (as if
some of the map is missing...but the blue sticker indicates all the map is
there).
The Bruges map (no.13) has the dame features, slightly different years.
The Bruges map includes a small;portion of 'Pays Bas' - greyed out and
de-coloured.
Dr Hillary Shaw
School of Business, Management and Marketing
Harper Adams University College
Newport
Shropshire
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Sent: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:53
Subject: Re: [MapHist] Belgian 1;40,000 map scales
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Hi Hillary,
Just one quick question: as Joost notes in his list of Belgian maps there are
no
1:40,000 maps, are you certain that your two maps are of Begian origin? The
German army had 1:40,000 topographic maps of Belgium in 1940 and may also have
had similar maps in 1914. I do not know the origin of the German maps, but the
German 1:200,000 Army General Staff maps for France from 1940, have a grid that
indicates that they had a 1:40,000 map series for Belgium and a 1:80,000 map
series for France.
I hope that this is of some help.
George
Dr.phil. George S. Carhart
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>From: [email protected]
>Sent: Apr 28, 2011 3:34 PM
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>Subject: [MapHist] Belgian 1;40,000 map scales
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>I have a selection of medium scale sheet maps from various countries,
>analogous
>to the UK's O/Smaps at 1;50,000, 1;25,000. Almost all these sheet maps are at
>'conventional' scales - 1;100,000, 1;50,000, 1;25,000. Except for a couple of
>Belgian maps - Anvers 1893, and Bruges and S E, 1913, both at 1;40,000.
>
>Anyone know why Belgium alone chose this unusual scale, or do I just need to
>get
>out to more 2nd hand map shops?
>
>
>
>Hillary Shaw
>Newport
>Shropshire
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>
Dr.phil. George S. Carhart
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