Comment by digi_owl
9 years ago
First of, direct links to imgur seems to just reroute to the imgur page these days.
Secondly, i suspect the inaccuracies comes from using satellite photos to draw the maps.
9 years ago
First of, direct links to imgur seems to just reroute to the imgur page these days.
Secondly, i suspect the inaccuracies comes from using satellite photos to draw the maps.
Why would they have used satellite photos when they could just have taken out a subscription to National Geographic and get all the maps they wanted, or bought a Rand McNally road atlas, or a stack of Michelin maps or... well, you get it: there was no shortage of maps of 'the free west' at their disposal. Where satellite photos came into play it would have been to fill in the blanks left by those maps: things which showed up on satellite photos but were missing on recent maps were clearly of interest.
Well, they wouldn't have trusted US maps. After all, their own commercial maps had intentional inaccuracies on them.[0]
But also it would have put the map-making organization out of work.
[0] http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-m...
So then send a spy in to buy the maps, and validate that important landmarks and military bases are in the "correct" places.
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