Big news for anyone making scenarios about Finnish efforts in WWII. Most of the such persons are probably Finnish and know this already, but in a case you missed it.
The National Land Survey of Finland (Maanmittauslaitos) has produced maps about the lost Karelian territory in four CDs. Those CDs contain most of the Karelian Isthmus and areas north of the Lake Ladoga. The maps are scanned from (pre)WWII era
originals. The 1:20 000 maps are scanned with 300 dpi.
The areas Finns conquered in '41 east the old border are not in those CDs. But army did surveyed them and those maps are available from archive in Pasila, Helsinki.
Go t o http://www.nls.fi/kartta/karjala/
and check it out yourself.
Unfortunately that page is in Finnish and the Swedish version the only other available. http://www.nls.fi/kartta/karjala/index_s.html
The cds cost 200 Finnish marks (per CD I think). That's little under 30 US dollars. I'm sure the email ( myynti@nls.fi ) given in the page can help if any of you English speakers wanna buy those.
I would say this is mighty impressive and any wargamer's wet dream come true. So any such CDs available from any other country?
-perkele
