Yaix, Karen, you have a Tiger by the tail... and I know how frustrating this can be. Haven't we been all there one way or another, but these crashes should not happen!! Like you I am using the Hungarian military maps for ages. Since they are for the entire Austrian Hungarian Empire and way way out of their borders, their application is absolutely necessary to all of us. You can see practically every house on it. I copy them to Paint and then use the snipping tool when I have zoomed in on the area I need. BUT... lets say you have no idea where the place is, you have just a vague name 1. THIS IS WHEN YOU USE STETTLS SEEKER - nothing bether than that, it will give you all the places and GPS for all the same names. The link to this one is http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/ <http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/> 2. WHEN I KNOW THE NAME AND THE APPROXIMATE AREA OK here goes the instruction for using www.mapy.cz On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Aida, > > I find Shtetlseeker's latitude and longitude most useful with the > maps at: > > _http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm_ > (http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm) > > > Those 1880 maps are very high resolution -- showing buildings and > footpaths > and they give all the German placenames with Czech or names in other > languages > like Polish, Ukraine, Hungarian, Italian, etc. where they apply in > parehtheses below > the German name. If there is no German name, only the other language > name appears. > > I find the Mapy.CZ website very difficult to use. Although I like the > historiky maps very much I have been disappointed in the > amount of zoom I could get on them when I found one of interest. > When I search on Slavice I get a number of > hits and just because I can guess that Okres Tachov is the location of the > one I want I got lucky. Before that I clicked on the top one > in the list to the left of the map display and got Slavic > somewhere in the south near the Italian border. After then, that > darn historiky map popped up every time I tried a new search with Slavice. > It only went away after I restarted my PC. > > When I tried Beneschau I came up with a number of hits that were > identified > in Czech by the Obec in which they belonged and I could not connect my > Beneschau with Obec Urad. I had to go to Shtetlseeker to learn the Czech > name of the place today (Benesovice) and then search with that to find out > that the one in Obec Urad was the right one!!! When I searched Mapy.CZ > with Benesovice I got the place in a map but it did not give the German > name > along with the Czech one. > > I have Ewald Keil's CD with the searchable Sudetenlan Lexicon that gives > all > the info one would want about any place at all but one would have to > search > for each place and copy the data to Notepad in order to save it to a > new file on a PC (to make it easier to retrieve). > > I guess it really is not possible to teach and old dog like me new tricks > so I just use my old faithful 1880 map sites with Shtetlseeker > which gives me the coordinates to apply there. > > I think you have given instructions how to use that Mapy.CZ site in the > past. There are probably a lot of newbies on the list from > time to time -- newbies who could not dig through all the > archived Emails because there are just too many and they are indexed > only by year. So if you have your own copy of your instructions to > use the Mapy.CZ website I (for one) would really appreciate it if you > would post them to the list at least one more time. > > I got a new PC system with Windows 7 for Christmas and I am supposed > to be able to still use my old HD which was reinstalled behind the new > one. > But when I try it causes a system crash so I cannoit access any of my > old files except the ones I happened to save on an external HD. Haven't > had a chance to sort all of that out as yet. > > The new system has an HD with a Terabyte of space!!! I wonder if I > will live long enough to fill 1/4 of it!!! > > Karen > > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >