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Originally Posted by Juri_JS
That's what I've always suspected for the older maps that came with the first Il-2 and Forgotten Battles.
Maybe this explains the relief height inaccuracies that can be seen on some of these maps. For example parts of the Balaton map seem to be too flat, especially the Bakony region north of lake Balaton.
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But SRTM data isn't perfect either, since it represents the way the world looked ca. 1990-2000 or even later. After WW2, there was a lot of growth and development in the USSR, China and Europe, and even in the Pacific, so you always have to go back to WW2-era maps to make sure that you've got your towns and cities the right size and to be sure that things like reservoirs and coastlines were actually there in the 1940s.
As an example, I believe that the CoD team wasted a lot of effort creating the "footprints" for British towns and cities based on current data, forgetting the fact that the landscape of the UK is incredibly different from the way it looked 75 years ago.
As another example, volcanic eruptions have made some major changes to the coastline of Hawaii and Rabaul since WW2.