Soviet Topographic Map Symbols
Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : United States. Army Map Service |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1994* |
Genre | : Maps |
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This work presents explanations in Russian of topographic symbols used on Russian/Soviet military-edition maps.
Author | : John Davies |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022638960X |
The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Author | : A. A. Psarev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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The Manual contains information about the atmosphere, weather and climate, winds, time and length of day; about terrain and their effect on troop combat operations; about topographic and special maps and photographic documents. The book presents basic data shown on topographic and special maps, the procedure used by unit commanders to maintain their working maps, and the effects of meteorological elements on missions and assesses terrain as an element of battlefield conditions.
Author | : Charles Kelly Bartles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
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Modern Russian military maps may comprise any combination of over 1,000 map symbols and 3,000 Russian terms. These symbols and terms identify tangible aspects such as locations, unit/equipment type, numbers, etc., but some symbols, and groupings of symbols, can also denote more subjective aspects such as movement over time, types of maneuvers, relationship to the surrounding environment and other activities or conditions. Due to very different military organizational systems, doctrinal semantic stylization, and broader cultural tendencies, those unfamiliar with Russian maps can misinterpret the intended meaning of these symbols and terms. Attempting to accurately interpret and organize Russian map symbology and terms raise questions about cognition and the basic processes of how humans interpret information. A potential pathway to answering these questions is through the application of semiotics—the study of signs and the process through which they produce meaning. This study has leveraged the works of the pioneering theorists of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and their successors in the relatively new field of cartosemiotics—the use of semiotic methodologies to create, understand and apply cartographic representations. Specifically, cartosemiotics facilitates the understanding of map symbolism; the type of sign systems that are found in maps; the processes through which humans understand cartographic signs; and the context in which cartographic sign systems and sign processes are embedded. This study demonstrates a semiotic-based system for describing Russian military map symbols, associated terms, which are often expressed in the form of an acronym, and how they depict activities in time and space, which can be easily understood and queried by a person unfamiliar with the Russian language and military symbology through the application of appropriate categorization and a relational database. In particular, this system proffers a cartosemiotic approach that captures the meaning of these symbols, as was intended by the Russian map makers who created them. This study finds that a semiotic approach is not only effective for organizing Russian military map symbology and terms but that the process of categorization and organization of these symbols and terms can reveal otherwise hidden knowledge about the phenomena that they represent.
Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Maps |
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Author | : United States. Army Map Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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