The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps

Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by grzm on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:26AM (#13626925)

Is that typical of all cities? How about Paris? Rio? Tokyo?

Have a link? I'd like to take a look.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by guard-of-terra on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:29AM (#13626932)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciagov/30849056096/in/album-72...

If it's a tourist map then probably so, but I assume CIA would like to see something more substantial on their map. They're not in for the sights are they?

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by briandear on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:40AM (#13628510)

Most of CIA's work is at the ground level. Stuff relevant for tourists is highly relevant in the field. (Meet this source next to the statue of St. Something, next to the kiosk across from the children's zoo entrance #3.)

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by avar on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:33AM (#13626942)

Churches are major landmarks.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by dingaling on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:46AM (#13627326)

They are also long-lived ( on the scale of decades and centuries ) and have reasonably static names.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by ptaipale on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:40AM (#13629089)

Yes, although in Soviet Union, they still often had other names and functions (as a movie theatre, or a grain warehouse, or whatever).

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by lostlogin on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:07AM (#13627043)

Some are - they are absolutely everywhere in all cities I've lived in or visited, and yet I couldn't tell you the names of more than a couple. Do people really know the names of a significant portion of them?

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by grzm on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:35AM (#13627120)

Probably the people who live in those neighborhoods do, which can be a useful reference if you're in those areas.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by maxerickson on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:29AM (#13628757)

Or a useful reference point to call back to the artillery.

Recording information that is tactically useful for a ground battle would almost certainly have been a goal of the mapping program.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by guard-of-terra on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:21AM (#13627247)

Asking people about churches in 198x USSR was probably not the wisest way to go around for a CIA spy. Better stick with libraries.

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by grzm on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:42AM (#13627311)

I was thinking more along the lines of "I'm looking for a shop near X."

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Re:The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps by guard-of-terra on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:02AM (#13627511)

Никогда ещё Штирлиц[1] не был так близок к провалу.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

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