Red AtlasJohn Davies, Alexander J. Kent, James Risen
Red Atlas
by John Davies, Alexander J. Kent, James Risen · first published 2017
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This reminds me of a fascinating book titled "The Red Atlas" by John Davies and Alexander Kent which is about the very detailed maps of Western cities the Soviet Union created during the Cold War.
on “Every map of China is wrong” ↗You could like The Red Atlas by John Davies and Alexander Kent. It is full of maps made by the Soviets for the Western world during the Cold War.
on “Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s” ↗…cheap today, this sort of thinking wasn’t entirely unreasonable back during the cold war, when maps truly were hard to develop from afar (there’s a brilliant and beautiful book on this subject called “The Red Atlas”). There’s a saying that generals often fight the last war, maybe that’s why China chose to obfuscate their maps well into the satellite and GPS era.
on “Every map of China is wrong” ↗