John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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What You Need to Know About Maps
Topographic series span the land surface of the world as far as we can see. There are four or five different scales, from one to a million down to about two and one to a hundred thousand. Then you've got maps that they made for the civil authorities throughout the er soviet union. We'll never know how many there are but it's phenomenaland then we've got the moon and out the ocean, oceans,. And, you know, it's endless.
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