Topographic maps GHz 1 10000. Maps of the General Staff in tourism

As you know, on maps there is such a thing as scale. Travel maps are created so that travelers can then simply navigate the area and go to the desired point, according to a pre-approved route. Much more accurate maps are used by the military. When conducting combat operations, every detail, even the smallest one, is important. After all, it can play a decisive role in preserving human lives and achieving victories in the theater of operations. The legendary 500-meter maps of the General Staff are now available to everyone. The information on them was strictly classified for a long time. Now their use is permitted at the legislative level. The latest samples of maps in scales of 1:500 and 1:250 are available to all our customers without exception. We have absolutely all the sheets that are digitized and linked to electronic maps for navigators.

What are the benefits of such cards?

Everything is presented in the smallest detail. You will know about the type of forest, the height of the trees, the presence of fords, bridges, drinking water wells, the height of the terrain, etc. In general, it will be possible to obtain almost any information. A scale of 1 centimeter – 500 meters guarantees a high degree of detail, which will allow you to accurately locate any object.

To order, it will be enough to name the region of the Russian Federation that is needed. There is no need to study prefabricated sheets and delve into the intricacies of the coordinate cartographic grid. Using these maps is very simple, because their designations are intuitive and known to each of us since childhood.

How much does it cost

Maps of the General Staff can be downloaded for free, but the quality is usually very poor. Also, not all sheets may be accessible, and the most interesting areas are usually missing. In order not to deprive yourself, use the services of our store. It will be possible to download the map of the General Staff only after the payment procedure.

Original name: SAS.Planet + New General Staff (GGC maps)
Year of issue: 2013
Genre: GIS
Developer: SAS Group, GosGisTsentra, "new General Staff"
Version: 06.2013
Language: Russian

About the program: SAS.Planet / SAS.Planet / SASPlanet is a free program designed for viewing and downloading high-resolution satellite images and regular maps provided by services such as Google Earth, Google Maps, Bing Maps, DigitalGlobe, Kosmosnimki, Yandex.maps, Yahoo! Maps, VirtualEarth, Gurtam, OpenStreetMap, eAtlas, iPhone maps, maps of the General Staff, etc., but, unlike these services, all the maps you downloaded will remain on your computer, and you can view them even without an Internet connection. In addition to satellite maps, it is possible to work with political, landscape, combined maps, as well as a map of the Moon and Mars. The distribution includes topographic maps of the GGC (GosGisTsentra, “new General Staff”) in the form of a cache for the SAS.Planet program.

Cards of the following scales are distributed:
layer z13 - 1: 200000, 2 km in 1 cm
layer z14 - 1: 100000, 1 km in 1 cm
layer z15 - 1: 50000, 500 m in 1 cm
layer z16 - 250m the GHz card is loaded from the network as needed, it is not yet available for distribution due to its large volume.
NB: layer numbers and folder names differ by one. Layer z15 corresponds to folder z14.
- With this use of scales, when you zoom in/out with the mouse wheel, you will see a map of a different scale, and not the result of zooming in/out.
- This set of maps is great for both general acquaintance with the area and for more detailed route planning, without switching between different map services.
Coverage area:
- The screenshots indicate the presence of the original maps. In the distributed cache, if a section of the map was missing, it was formed from a map of a more detailed scale.
Coverage by scale:
In the distributed cache, if a section of the map was missing, it was formed from a map of a more detailed scale!
The pictures are clickable.
Missing areas are shaded dark:
2 km in 1 cm:

1 km in 1 cm:

500 m in 1 cm:

The cache format is BerkeleyDB, i.e. tiles are stored in several larger files, which avoids the time-consuming effort of unzipping and copying millions of tiles.
- You can download both the entire cache (folder!N36_38_O36_38) and the desired square.

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Installation

Simple:
1. Place the genshtab_new.zmp folder in sas.planetasas.mapsGenshtab
2. Place the genshab_new folder in sas.planetcache_db
3. Restart SAS.Planet
4. Select the map General Staff -> New General Staff (GGC)
5. PROFIT!
Opening the card may take 10-15 seconds, do not be alarmed.
Detailed:
1. Download and install the SAS.Planet program.
2. Download from this distribution the folder genshtab_new.zmp and the folders of the squares you need or the folder with the entire cache - N36_38_O36_38
3. After installing SAS.Planets on your computer, the first thing you will need is a description of our layer so that it appears in the “Maps” menu. The description is contained in the genshtab_new.zmp folder. Copy this folder to the SAS.PlanetMapssas.mapsGenshtab folder (assuming SAS.Planet is the folder where you installed SAS.Planet). After copying genshtab_new.zmp you need to restart the program.
4. Archives with map cache must be unpacked into the SAS.Planetcache_dbgenshtab_new folder. For example, coverage of scale 15 (500 meters) should be in the SAS.Planetcachepenzasatz14 folder, the rest should be similar.
5. Restart SAS.Planet
6. Opening the card may take 10-15 seconds, do not be alarmed.

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Minimum system requirements:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
CPU: Pentium 4 2 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Video card: 128 MB
Free space on the railway: 46.46 GB

I’ll say right away that for those who want a lot of strange things, they can google “Textbook on military topography” and study. I myself studied at the university using it. There is a ton of old and useless material for tourists.

What will happen in this article:

So, what is useful to know about GS cards and is useful in practice.

To begin with, a little repetition of what was in previous articles.

This is what it looks like:

File with extension .gif- just a picture. How you can have sex with her separately is described in paragraph 2. And the file with the extension .map- the file that the Ozi Explorer program will open will find the path to the picture specified in it (you downloaded both files into one folder, right?) and will show you a map on the monitor, and the program will understand that this is exactly a map, each of its points corresponds some geographic coordinates. (The same two files (picture and .map) for each map sheet will also be available on decent distributions from torrents.)

Now everything is simple. "File-print". You indicate what scale you have, the paper format and its orientation, and that’s it. The program also allows you to print not the entire sheet, but a selected fragment.

Also, maps to scale, like Ozi Explorer, can be printed by the Global Mapper program.

If you followed one of these points, except 1a, then when printing on A4 paper you will spend 6 sheets per sheet of card, and on A3 paper 3 sheets. Moreover, most of the paper will go into scraps. And then you will need to glue the sheets from the printer into one sheet of card. It's nerdy, but fun. Not having an A3 printer at home, I used Ozi Explorer to send the card for printing to a virtual printer, which gave me PDF files, which I already carried on a flash drive to the A3 printing service near the metro.

Of course, you can forget to print to scale, but just take an image file with a map, print it using the usual Windows tools, or whatever you have, on one sheet (well, at least A3, otherwise it will turn out to be completely pornographic) and rejoice. True, then you will already have a map without a specific scale at all. It definitely won’t work to measure distances and calculate directions either. It will only work as an overview map.

At home, planning a report on the computer, we deal with GS maps in electronic form, which is unnatural for them.

For working with maps on a computer the best one is the one I have already named SAS Planet; you can also view them on the website Routes.ru or nakarte.me.

From the mobile phone screen: LOCUS (there is also a package of maps from here, where there are GS maps and many others, instructions for the application from me). In the Garmin travel navigator It is convenient to upload GS maps using the same website Routes.ru (download the kmz file and put it in the Garmin - Custom maps folder on the device. Detailed instructions). Although I advise loading OSM maps into the navigator and printing the General Staff.

Why did I write the length and width of the map sheet in degrees?

The fact is that in practice you will receive sheets where all the information outside the map frame has been cut off, including the inscription on the scale (there was once a secrecy label there, which was removed, and a lot of other information that interfered with use maps in the electronic navigator). But the frame always remains (if the person who scanned the card is not a scoundrel), and by calculating the width or length of the sheet in angular measures from it, you can determine the scale.

The frame is cool. The presence of a frame allows you to get geographic coordinates (yours or another object) with a paper map in your hands, without a computer and a pocket GPS navigator. For what? The only situation that comes to my mind is a group of tourists who had an emergency, and they do not have a GPS navigator, but they have a map of the General Staff and the ability to contact rescuers. It usually happens that there is GPS, but there is no connection. In practice, I had to do the opposite, using the coordinates in the device, and point my finger on a piece of paper at the place where we were (well, I didn’t have a map of the General Staff in the navigator in electronic form!). In one of the previous articles I already talked a little, I gave this example.

That very rare moment when the “degrees, minutes, seconds” coordinate format comes in handy. (Read about other coordinate formats and which one is better to use)

Having received the coordinates of your location (using a GPS receiver or through astronomical observations), you can find this place on a gridded map.

For example. Our coordinates are 55°41’10”C 36°3’50”E. Where are we on the map?

At each corner of the map grid, the coordinates of that corner are indicated. Alternating black and white stripes indicate minutes of latitude or longitude. Dots next to the stripes are separated by tens of seconds.

Let's find the latitude first. The width of the bottom edge of the sheet is 55°40’00”, we put one more strip up. We will have 41’, and we reach the nearest point - that’s another 10”. We put a ruler there.

We perform a similar operation to find longitude. We will only move to the right from the corner of the map. The coordinates of the left edge of the sheet are 36°00’00”, we are missing 3’50” from the required 36°3’50” - that’s three stripes and five dots. We put a ruler there.

At the intersection of the lines there will be a turn in the road, which I circled in yellow.

Having determined your location on the ground and found it on the map, you can carry out the reverse operation by finding your coordinates. You just need to draw perpendiculars to the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the map, and then count the required number of stripes and dots from the corners of the map. The resulting coordinates... well... uh... dictate to the rescuers, probably.

Rectangular (kilometer) grid coordinates and Plane rectangular coordinates

Every textbook, presentation of tourist clubs and gurus in cartography considers it their duty to talk about it, to waste the darkness of their own and other people’s time. And only the 1977 textbook on military topography says that this garbage is used for target designation by artillerymen. Well, it's easier for them that way. The question is, why bother torturing your head with unnecessary information when the whole world and all other maps use a geographic coordinate system? Why do tourists need this system?

Yes, it gives us a coordinate grid with which we determine the scale of the map, if it is not indicated anywhere else!

Look at the numbers I circled in red. This is the number of kilometers from... Narnia/the country of the elves/the tail of the World Serpent, it doesn’t matter where from, it doesn’t change the essence, no one has been interested in their absolute meaning for a long time. Who cares?

We are interested in the difference between them. As you can see, it is 1 km. I wrote above that the coordinate grid on maps is every 2 cm. Divide 1 km by 2, it turns out 500 meters per 1 cm! This means this is a fragment of the “five hundred meter” map (1:50,000).

Sometimes, for convenience, these numbers are placed in the middle of the map and written next to the grid stripes. This allows us to determine the scale of the map even if the map frame is cropped.

Symbols on topographic maps

Common notations. Nothing complicated, but you need to watch it a couple of times. Here are a lot of pictures for you:

Dear visitor!

We present to your attention a map search system based on the archive of topographic maps of Russia. For your convenience, a map search system has been implemented on a satellite map, by the names of settlements, rivers, as well as by the coordinates of points, or using Google Maps. The site presents topographic maps of the General Staff, maps for Garmin GPS navigators, and topographic maps of the GosGisCenter.
Maps for GPS navigators - in jnx, map, img formats

Making custom JNX cards

We will produce maps for you in JNX format of any region (subject to the availability of maps on our server - from the General Staff maps, from the new GGC topographic maps from the site satmaps.info). Contact us [email protected].

We help beginner tourists: Dear visitors! Please add attractions you know for maps via the link " add to map description", which is on the page of each card.

Maps Navitel Navigator

Navitel Maps Navigator for car GPS navigators, smartphones and tablet computers. The most detailed maps of Russia, Europe, Latin America. A huge number of POIs, the latest information about the country’s road network and convenient address search.

Three-dimensional maps, interactive services - traffic jams, exchange of coordinates, information about accidents, warnings about surveillance cameras and speed limits - all these are maps from Navitel.

On our server, raster topographic maps of the General Staff and the GosGisCenter of the Russian Federation are freely available. The capacity of the cards is about 200 GB. Raster maps, scan format – gif or png. All maps are linked to the OziExplorer program.
Map coverage: – General Staff – the whole world, StateGisCenter – mainly Russia.
The scales of available topographic maps in 1 cm are 1,000,000, 500,000, 200,000, 100,000.
The search for the desired map is carried out using the interactive satellite map Google Maps. Just select the area you are interested in and click on it with the mouse - information about the range of maps for the selected area will appear in a pop-up window, as well as a link to view and download maps and bindings for Ozi available on the server.

Search for interesting places on a satellite map. Add your points to the map.

Our website is a project to create a database of all interesting places in Russia marked on satellite maps. You can add any interesting points to our website, as well as comment on existing ones..

You can search for any region of Russia, district. Points are displayed on satellite maps, each point has a name and description added by our visitors. You can add your own comments and photographs to each point.

To add an interesting place or point to our database, select a category, follow the “Add point” link - a page will open with a satellite map and a marker placed in the area of ​​your choice. Use the mouse to move the marker to the desired location. Add a name for your point, a description of the place. Click on the add button and your point will be added to the database

Search for coins and treasures

Points for those who are interested in searching for coins and treasures using a metal detector.
In this section we mark the places where coins were looked for - old, abandoned villages, fair sites... We also add here the places where, according to legend, the treasures of Kolchak, Stenka Razin, gold of Napoleon and Ermak were supposedly hidden.

Anomalous zones

In this section you will find places that are considered "weird", i.e. abnormal. This is the well-known anomalous zone of Molebok, and other points on the map of Russia, where UFOs, Bigfoot most often appear, or other unexplained phenomena occur.
Also in this section you can look at satellite images of places where mysterious, inexplicable events took place, for example, the Dyatlov Pass.

Historical places

Section for lovers and experts of Russian history.
We look for and mark on a satellite map places where significant historical events took place - these could be battles from different wars, or events from Russia’s recent past.
Coordinates of historical, architectural, archeological monuments - also search and post in this section.

Hunting and fishing

Section of useful information for fishermen and hunters.
Do you like to hunt and fish - mark your favorite places where you hunt or fish - add in the comments what kind of fish or game is found in this place.
You can also find and add information about the location of hunting grounds, reserves, and private ponds.

Tourism and rest

Section of the site for lovers of outdoor activities.
Points for tourists are natural monuments, landscape monuments and nature reserves. Points of tourist routes and mountain climbing. For lovers of river rafting - parking lots, names of rocks, tributaries, islands. Discussions, comments and questions for each marked point.

Meteorites and craters

Section of the site for meteorite hunters.
Points indicating meteorite impact sites. The section indicates the impact points of meteorites, the location of meteorites, as well as the places of formation of meteorite craters in Russia. For meteorites, their type, weight, description of the fall or the circumstances of finding the meteorite (if it was found) are given.

A section with information about the location and coordinates of various interesting places in Russia.
Do you know any interesting place? Look, perhaps it is already in our database, and you can read comments from people who have already been there. Or add a new place, describe it and provide the opportunity for all site visitors to learn about it.