Estonia – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 30 May 2024 23:28:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Estonia – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 CBC News on Russian GPS Jamming https://www.maproomblog.com/2024/05/cbc-news-on-russian-gps-jamming/ Thu, 30 May 2024 23:28:17 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1831555 More]]>

CBC News reports on GPS jamming by Russia, which has closed the airport in Tartu, Estonia until authorities could install a backup ground-based beacon. Russia has been accused of messing with GPS signals for years, but the CBC report focuses on the idea that in this case the jamming is at least in part to deal with Ukrainian drone attacks—the implication being that insofar as Estonia is concerned, this is collateral damage (to which Russia is presumably indifferent at best).

See also the BBC News story from earlier this month (previously).

]]> 1831555 Estonia’s National Atlas Coming Next Month https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/10/estonias-national-atlas-coming-next-month/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:39:42 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1787843 More]]> Estonia’s first national atlas is coming next month, ERR News reports. Among its 500-odd maps “will also be less serious themed maps, such as the spread of kama and blood sausage in Estonia, a map of 1938 with the birthplaces of the Estonian elite, and a map of the location of public saunas in 1967.” The atlas will be published in Estonian and English.

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