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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How Do You Compare the British Survey Maps With the Soviet Maps?
accuracy tests show that the soviet maps are accurate. But of course, we've only tested a very, very small number in a small fraction of what is absolutely out there. The errors that we see prove that they're mad by humans. As alic says, it shows that people doing this's not machines. Wedon't know what the wast i want to look back to something that alex mentioned earlier, about comparing british onland survey maps with with these soviet Maps. How would you compare these, these two projects? O, i mean, john can tell you about specific examples,. i think in general, am, that's a very, a very
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