So I'm doing the political correspondence, or at least as much as I can before I get bored, and I just wanted to share another experience I had, just now, while tracking down the modern names for places Fritz invaded went.
It started when I couldn't find *any* place names when googling "Pischeli Czech Republic". But I remembered that the last time I couldn't find something, it ended up being in Prague. So I tried "Pischeli Prague", and ended up with an 1865 "Memorial of the Projected Railway from Vienna" that listed a bunch of stops on the various projected lines, using the old German names for villages and towns.
On the line that included "Pischeli", I recognized a bunch of names that I had just found the Czech names for (sweeeet). So I plugged in a few into Google maps, and sure enough, they formed a nice projected train line. Then I looked at the stop immediately before and immediately after Pischeli, zoomed in on the map, and knowing that it was somewhere between Benešov and Říčany, spotted "Pyšely" within a few seconds. Victory!
You have to get creative on this scavenger hunt. :D
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Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love
Date: 2019-11-20 04:31 pm (UTC)invadedwent.It started when I couldn't find *any* place names when googling "Pischeli Czech Republic". But I remembered that the last time I couldn't find something, it ended up being in Prague. So I tried "Pischeli Prague", and ended up with an 1865 "Memorial of the Projected Railway from Vienna" that listed a bunch of stops on the various projected lines, using the old German names for villages and towns.
On the line that included "Pischeli", I recognized a bunch of names that I had just found the Czech names for (sweeeet). So I plugged in a few into Google maps, and sure enough, they formed a nice projected train line. Then I looked at the stop immediately before and immediately after Pischeli, zoomed in on the map, and knowing that it was somewhere between Benešov and Říčany, spotted "Pyšely" within a few seconds. Victory!
You have to get creative on this scavenger hunt. :D