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Originally Posted by GPZ
I also used a satellite map in the very early '90s though I think it was American. I bought it in London. At that time the only available road map of central and Eastern Russia was the Russian national road book which had large random blank spaces for security reasons. In about '92 the Germans produced a good road map for Western and central Russia which was invaluable.
May I ask what took you there in the '90s?
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I never went into eastern countries that time - I got asked from a friend in Argentina to buy a good map. He told me that he couldn`t find a good detailed one. So I went hunting in Germany and found a small store in Munich which was specialized in maps.
The seller in the shop showed me by comparision with a US satelite maps that the russian ones aren`t out of scale or missing details or that they don`t have this white security spaces. A lot of 4wd off roaders who went to Afrika used them too, he told me. They were cheap, about 5DM/3$ a piece, and I needed as far as I remember for e.g. to cover the province of Cordoba 5 or 6 of them. They were in a big size, think ca. 100x140cm.
My friend colour copied and sold them. We used theam when we went riding in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil. We only used this maps, the topographic details were rich and it was easy to navigate.
Later I found out that I could have run into serious legal problems because it was forbidden to import them into Argentina. I "imported" a lot of them and luckely the argentinian border control never looked into the roll in which I carried them.
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