I posted this at the Transdem forum, but worth repeating here...
visited the Poehali site yesterday to gather Russian topo maps for a couple of potential projects, to be greeted by the message that their download service ceased on the 15th December and that you now need to use the Mapstor site. As it happened, the old processes to get the maps, selecting from the overview map and entering the "captcha" still worked, but for how much longer who knows.
I did check out Mapstor but so far as I can tell (the site is in Russian with very little English), there's no free download service and you need to buy the maps or sets of maps that you want. I would be very wary of giving any credit or debit card details to a Russian site, regardless of how authentic it seems (maybe they accept Paypal).
A shame to see it go as the Russian maps were incredibly useful for doing historical routes (e.g. Balkan narrow gauge) or those areas where Open Street and Google haven't penetrated very deeply. Do we know of any other source for these maps?
visited the Poehali site yesterday to gather Russian topo maps for a couple of potential projects, to be greeted by the message that their download service ceased on the 15th December and that you now need to use the Mapstor site. As it happened, the old processes to get the maps, selecting from the overview map and entering the "captcha" still worked, but for how much longer who knows.
I did check out Mapstor but so far as I can tell (the site is in Russian with very little English), there's no free download service and you need to buy the maps or sets of maps that you want. I would be very wary of giving any credit or debit card details to a Russian site, regardless of how authentic it seems (maybe they accept Paypal).
A shame to see it go as the Russian maps were incredibly useful for doing historical routes (e.g. Balkan narrow gauge) or those areas where Open Street and Google haven't penetrated very deeply. Do we know of any other source for these maps?