Kamchatka trekking maps

[Ainsa]

Hi everybody!

I have no right yet to post web-URL s on this forum. Who wants to get detailed Kamchatka 1:200 000 SA maps READABLE FOR ESpeaking people, welcom to visit my personal web-site with Kamchatka maps. Just look at my profile the web-URL is mentioned there.

With best regards,
Marat.

[Ainsa]

Some news. Just finished working over N-57-XXI and N-57-XXVII Kamchatka 1: 200 000 SA topomaps readable for English speaking people. The maps are covering the entire basin of the Avacha river and the most of the territory of Nalychevo Nature Park. To see the maps just visit my web-site with free of charge Kamchatka Maps (find the URL at my profile). Just click on the link "Float and Flyfishing Maps" and then "Avacha River". The maps might be useful for those who are intending either to participate in floa/flyfishing trip on the Avacha river or to take part in trekking to Nalychevo Nature Park of kamchatka.
Less detailed trekking map, an example of possible outline itinerary of trekking in the Nalychevo Nature Park you can find if you click "different trekking maps" and then "Trekking around Koryaksky volcano". I'd higly appreciate if visitors send me their feed backs re maps quality, any advice for future would be welcome.

[Ainsa]

Finally I have got more rights on this forum.

So Kamchatka Maps SA topomaps readable for ESPeolpe are available on

http://www.geocities.com/ainsanov

[Benni]

Have you developed them on your own? Or did you go with a cartographic institute?
Ben

[Ainsa]

Hi Benni

neither have developed them on my own nor did it with a cartographic institute.

I just take any one of Soviet Army topomaps (I have almost all of them)

Make high quality digital copy of the map

Do my best trying to take out all scriptures made in Russian

Rebuild the background

Make new criptures readable for non-Russian speaking people

Sometimes I simply transform Cirillic scriptures into Latin ones. For example PETROPAVLOVSK - KAMCHATSKY is written with deformed cirillic letters if you zoom-in the image enough you would be able to see how it was done

P in Rusian = R therefore it is enough to add \ and Russian R would turn in to Latin R.

Some times it takes working 2 hours a day during full one week to finish with one 1:200000 topomap.

Why I'm doing this really stupid work? I think that I have a serious reason. Once I could see Chinese map of Almaty District of Kazakhstan (where I'm living) and I've got a very bad feeling, since my childhood full of Soviet evil propaganda against China, I still feel uncomfortable when I can see Chinese scriptures. Then I thought what any average Western Man learned on Holywood Movies of Cold War Time (Independence Day, the 4th of July, Rocky, Rambo etc) could think about Russian scriptures. The most obvious example: it was written on the fence in Russian: I love you, Lyuba. But the american tourist who has been guided by me thought that it was written something really evil, just because it had been written in Russian. It was looking like that he even couldn't imagine that it is possible to write "I love you" in Russian. And even if it is written I LOVE YOU his reaction is = like it is written I HATE YOU
So I'm just trying to make reading "Evil" Army topomaps more pleasant for friends of Rambo and not only for them, I hope.

for comparison visit a page with 100% in Russian SA topomaps

http://www.geocities.com/iturup_island

[AndreasW]

Hi Ainsa,

thanks for your "stupid work". We appreciate it... :up:

I just take any one of Soviet Army topomaps (I have almost all of them)
Do you have also topomaps from India (H-44), like these?
http://www.marshruty.ru/Maps/Map.aspx?MapID=dcd00b9b-b40c-4a23-9065-6832e5831a5a
http://www.tinet.ru/~stern/maps/h.html#H-44 (http://www.tinet.ru/%7Estern/maps/h.html#H-44)

Спасибо!
AndreasW