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The first four sheets were published in 1964, and the final sheets of the first edition in 1976. Sheets were published in several versions: a full version, a version without contours (for social science thematic mapping) and a version without placenames and infrastructure (for scientific thematic
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Production of the 262 sheets was divided between the geodetic services of the participating countries. Thus, the sheets to be produced in the GDR were printed by VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha and VEB Kombinat Geodäsie und Kartographie in
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consists of a total of 224 (#1–17 & 28–234) main sheets and 38 overlap sheets (although at least 10 were dropped). They depict the entire earth (land and water surfaces) according to a uniform scale, coloring and drawing system. The
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The production of a 1:2,500,000 scale map of the world had been discussed since the late 1940's, partly because many cartographers were dissatisfied with the work on the
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Publication of a second edition began in 1989, but appears to have been abandoned with the collapse of the Communist regimes in the Eastern Bloc shortly thereafter.
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Török, Zsolt G. (1987). "Radó, Sándor (Alexander Rado)". In Harley, J. B.; Woodward, David; Edney, Matthew H.; Pedley, Mary Sponberg; Monmonier, Mark S. (eds.).
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mapping). The title of each sheet was given in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, but all placenames on the map itself were given only in the Latin alphabet.
127:. The sheets to be produced in the Soviet Union were created by the Department of Geodesy and Cartography (Главное управление геодезии и картографии) in 131:. Proofs of several of the sheets involved in the series were presented by East German cartographers at an international conference in 93: 108:, the Millionth Map had suffered a serious setback, and it was uncertain whether that series could ever be completed. 174:
Heffernan, Michael; Győri, Róbert (2014). Lorimer, Haydenn; Withers, Charles W.J. (eds.). "Sándor Radó (1899-1981)".
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The initiative for the production of the Karta Mira was taken by cartographers from Hungary (
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is now commonly used to describe this series, even outside the
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GITTA – Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance
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Division of the world into the sheets of the map series
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Index


Russian
map series
Soviet Union
Russia
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
German Democratic Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
International Map of the World
World War II
Alexander Radó
Leipzig
Potsdam
Moscow
Erfurt
Cartography


The history of cartography
Karta mira online
A detailed description of the Karta Mira
GITTA – Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance
Map index with many of the Karta Mira
Map collection
University of Greifswald
Categories
World maps

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