Much like the Americans in the Korean war ditching their heavy gunsight mechanisms and instead sticking a bit of bubblegum on the cockpit screen for an aiming mark....

Another poor excuse lost for bombing civil structures...

it does mention paper maps from the 80s near the bottom of the article.

Wonder if there are any bombing routes on Komoot?

Russians mapped everywhere during the cold war, a warehouse full of them was found in one of the Baltic countries. They have been digitised and there's an app

https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/201 ... r-era.html

I wonder if they've got all the branches of Spar, mapped as waypoints

riderdown wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 7:34 am Russians mapped everywhere during the cold war, a warehouse full of them was found in one of the Baltic countries. They have been digitised and there's an app

https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/201 ... r-era.html

Oh... the good old russian military maps. Villages where we found glaciers. Roads where we found deep gorges.
Still better than nothing in times where sat imagery cost lots of money.
But they surely caused some confusion in the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains

I wonder what would've happened if the Tibetan/Chinese authorities would've found our russian and US military maps in an area otherwise closed for foreign travellers.

Oh... the good old russian military maps.

They are quite accurate for the Manchester area, even showing the then as yet not built M66

I suppose their their interest was focused on places they might want to go.......

Paper maps you say? Hmm... Ask Reg

Love 'em. No stupid batteries. And no silly electric lines to follow slavishly. And double up as works of art.

I don't think we got lost this week? Well maybe occasionally geographically reorientated. And of course that's the whole point

And how was I supposed to know that Welsh bridleways extended into Yorkshire?