two map questions

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Please note the period I've just inserted in the EastView link below. 
Sorry for missing it on the first try.

Anne Lounsbery wrote:

> Can anyone please tell me 
> 
> (1) website(s) for good online political maps of Russia, the more place
> names the better?
> 
> (2) a recommendation for a DETAILED political map of Russia, on paper, on
> with lots of place names?  Preferably in Latin letters (it's for student
> use), but Russian would be OK too.
> 
> Please reply off-list to anne.lounsbery at nyu.edu.  Thank you!

Copying to your private address, but agreeing with Tatiana Kuzmic that a
public posting would help more people.

EastView Cartographic <http://www.cartographic.com/> is excellent, and
not only for the FSU. They can sell you excruciatingly detailed maps
(the old military topo maps) of county-sized areas, as well as
larger-scale political and other maps.

If you're interested only in place names and locations and are not
finicky about fancy colors and shading, you can download excellent
gazetteers in CSV format from the National Geospatial Intelligence
Agency (NIMA, an old acronym retained despite the name change)
<http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html>: click "Country Files"
at left. When importing into MS Access, be sure to click the "Advanced"
button in the first dialog and specify Unicode (UTF-8) as the code page.
This will preserve the Cyrillic versions of the names. Romanizations, of
course, follow the BGN system.

They also let you do online searches, and will be offering more features
shortly.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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