GIS and Cartography Workgroup

Atlas of the Republic of Poland


Maps list

Part One COUNTRY - TERRITORY - ORGANIZATION

11. GENERAL MAPS

11.1 Poland and the World

1. Climatic zones and vegetation 1:100000000
after W. Okolowicz and World Atlas of the Polish Army Topographic
Service, modified
2. Diplomatic relations of Poland and international organizations 1:100000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
3. Scattering of Poles 1:200000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
4. Sea and air communications 1:200000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
5. Female fertility 1:200000000
Ewa Jankowska
6. Gross domestic product 1:200000000
Ewa Jankowska

11.2 Poland in Europe

1. Relief and natural regions 1:20000000
Regions after J.Kondracki, modified
2. Political division and communications 1:20000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
3. Nations 1:40000000
Ewa Jankowska
4. Diplomatic relations of Poland and international organizations 1:40000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
5. Land use 1:40000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
6. Foreign trade 1:40000000
Ewa Jankowska, Jerzy Ostrowski
7. Natural increase 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
8. Density of population 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
9. Urban population 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
10. Unemployment 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
11. Agriculture in gross domestic product 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
12. Industry in gross domestic product 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
13. Economic growth 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska
14. Health service 1:80000000
Ewa Jankowska

11.3 General map

Tadeusz Z. Kliniewski
General map 1:1500000
Towns of Upper-Silesian Industrial District 1:500000

11.4 Poland from space

Stanislaw Lewinski, Andrzej Ciolkosz
Poland from space 1:1500000
Vicinity of Gdansk 1:500000
Vicinity of Warsaw 1:500000

12. DETAILED MAPS

12.1 General map of Poland (part 1: Pomerania) 1:500000

Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.2 General map of Poland (part 2: Varmia and Masuria) 1:500000

Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.3 General map of Poland (part 3: Greater Poland) 1:500000

Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.4 General map of Poland (part 4: Mazovia and Podlachia) 1:500000

Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.5 General map of Poland (part 5: Silesia) 1:500000

Upper Silesian Industrial District 1:250000
Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.6 General map of Poland (part 6: Little Poland) 1:500000

Michal Najgrakowski, Andrzej Czerny, Ewa Jankowska, Tadeusz Z.
Kliniewski, Wanda Kluge, Jerzy Ostrowski, Jan Rutkowski, Wojciech
Rzadkowski, Lidia Sitek, Elzbieta M.Tokarska

12.7 Main cities and urban complexes I

Jerzy Ostrowski, Wieslaw Ostrowski
1. Szczecin 1:125000
2. Gdansk-Gdynia 1:125000
3. Bydgoszcz 1:125000
4. Bialystok 1:125000
5. Poznan 1:125000
6. Lodz 1:125000

12.8 Main cities and urban complexes II

Jerzy Ostrowski, Wieslaw Ostrowski
1. Wroclaw 1:125000
2. Czestochowa 1:125000
3. Lublin 1:125000
4. Warszawa 1:125000

12.9 Main cities and urban complexes III

Jerzy Ostrowski, Wieslaw Ostrowski
1. Upper Silesian Industrial District 1:125000
2. Rybnik District 1:125000
3. Bielsko-Biala-Zywiec 1:125000
4. Krakow 1:125000

13. HISTORY

13.1 Polish lands in the period of the Piast dynasty

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Poland during the reign of the first Piasts 1:3000000
2. Poland after the death of Boleslaw the Wrymouth in 1138 1:3000000
3. Poland in the period of the feudal fragmentation in the 13th c. (1279) 1:3000000
4. The Kingdom of Poland under Wladyslaw the Short (1320) 1:3000000
5. Organization of the church in the middle of the 13th century 1:6000000

13.2 Polish lands in the 14th century

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Polish lands in 1368 1:1500000
2. Poland under the reign of Casimir the Great 1:8000000

13.3 Polish lands in the 16th century

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Polish lands in 1580 1:1500000
2. The Commonwealth in the 16th century 1:8000000

13.4 Polish lands in the 18th century

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Polish lands circa 1790 1:1500000
2. The Commonwealth during the partitions 1:8000000

13.5 Polish lands under foreign domination

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Polish lands in 1900 1:1500000
2. Central-East Europe in 1900 1:8000000

13.6 Polish lands after the 1st World War

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Polish lands in 1933 1:1500000
2. Central-East Europe in 1933 1:8000000

13.7 Polish lands after the 2nd World War

Michal Najgrakowski
1. Poland in 1945 1:1500000
2. Territorial changes in the history of Polish State 1:8000000

14. ADMINISTRATION

14.1 Administrative divisions 1946-1975

Jan Rutkowski (elaboration)
1946 1:3000000
1950 1:3000000
1960 1:3000000
1970 1:3000000

14.2 Administrative division in 1993

Michal Najgrakowski, Elzbieta M. Tokarska (elaboration)
Administrative division in 1993 1:1500000
List of communes by types (1 January 1993)
Table

14.3 Spatial organization of jurisdiction

Michal Najgrakowski, Elzbieta M. Tokarska (elaboration)
1. Spatial organization of jurisdiction 1:1500000
2. Compasses of courts of appeal 1:6000000

14.4 Spatial organization of fiscal service

Spatial organization of fiscal service 1:1500000
Elzbieta M. Tokarska (elaboration)

14.5 Spatial organization of churches in 1991

Wojciech Jankowski
1. Roman Catholic Church 1:1500000
2. Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church 1:6000000
3. Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland 1:6000000

14.6 Territorial fivision of the Roman Catholic Church 1992

Territorial division of the Roman Catholic Church in 1992 1:1500000
Wojciech Jankowski

15. CARTOGRAPHY

15.1 The ancient maps of Poland

Ewa Jankowska (elaboration)
1. Bernard Wapowski: Mappa... Regni Poloniae ... (1526) 1:1000000
2. Waclaw Grodecki: Poloniae, Lithuaniaeque Descriptio (1595) 1:1 680000
3. Andrzej Pograbka: Partis Sarmatiae Europeae ... Nova Descriptio (1570) 1:1 950000
4. Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwill, Tomasz Makowski: Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae ... Descriptio ... (1613) 1:1 293000
5. Jonasz Scultetus: Silesiae Ducatus... Delineatio (1638) 1:1000000
6. Jerzy Freudenhammer: Palatinatus Posnaniensis ... Nova Delineatio (1645) 1:490000
7. Wilhelm le Vasseur de Beauplan: Delineatio Generalis... Ukraina (1648) 1:1 800000
8. Jozef Aleksander Jablonowski, Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni: Carte de la Pologne (177) 1:692000
9. Karol de Perthées: Mappa Szczegulna Wojewodztwa Krakowskiego (1792) 1:225000

15.2 Polish topographical maps till 1939


Andrzej Czerny, Wojciech Rzadkowski (elaboration)
1. Topographical map of the Kingdom of Poland (Quartermasters Map) 1:126000
Sheets index
Examples
2. Topographical maps elaborated and published by the Military
Geographical Institute
Scheme of the sheet line system of 1:100000 and 1:25000 maps
I. Detailed map 1:25,000
Published sheets
Examples:
Normal type
Tourist edition
II. Tactical map 1:100,000
Published sheets
Examples:
Multicoloured type (standard 1931)
Tourist edition
III. Operational map 1:300,000
Sheets index
Examples:
Normal type - edition of 1928
Normal type - edition of 1938
IV. Map of Poland and neighbouring countries 1:500,000
Sheets index
Examples:
Normal type - edition of 1928
Normal type - edition of 1938

15.3 Contemporary polish topographical maps

Wojciech Rzadkowski (elaboration)
1. Topographical maps of the Board of Topography of General Staff of
Polish Army elaborated in the "1942" coordinate system
Index schema and denotation of maps in the "1942" coordinates
system
Examples:
1.1 "1942" scale 1:10,000 (year 1960)
1.2 "1942" scale 1:25,000 (year 1957)
1.3 "1942" scale 1:50,000 (year 1959)
1.4 "1942" scale 1:100,000 (year 1961)
1.5 "1942" scale 1:100,000 - civilian edition (year 1990)
1.6 "1942" scale 1:200,000 - civilian edition (year 1991)
2. Topographical maps of the state geodetic and cartographic service
elaborated in the state coordinate system "1965"
Division in zones and denotation of maps in the state coordinate
system "1965"
Examples:
2.1 "1965" scale 1:10,000 (year 1979)
2.2 "1965" scale 1:25,000 (year 1982)
3.3 "1965" scale 1:50,000 (year 1978)
3. Topographical maps of the state geodetic and cartographic service
elaborated in the "GUGiK-1980" coordinate system
Index schema and denotation of maps in the "GUGiK-1980"
coordinate system
Examples:
3.1 "GUGiK-1980" scale 1:100,000 (year 1981)
3.2 "GUGiK-1980" scale 1:500,000 (year 1992)