Archive and fund

The LGIA geospatial information archive started its work on June 1, 2006, taking over the geodesy and cartography materials from the SLS archive and systematizing them.

The Archive and Material Circulation Fund provides:

  • compilation, storage, accounting and issuance of LGIA cartography, geodesy and photogrammetry technical documentation (including electronic), record keeping and personnel documents for work purposes;
  • an opportunity for legal persons and individuals to purchase geoinformative material circulated by the LGIA - maps, books.

Geoinformation materials existing and available in the Archive and Material Circulation Fund:

1. Catalogues, overviews, reports:

  • aerial photographs in analogue and digital form, aerial photography overviews;
  • orthophoto maps in digital form;
  • topographic maps and plans in analogue and digital form, technical documentation for their preparation;
  • thematic maps;
  • satellite maps and compilation materials;
  • copies of photographic plans;
  • geodetic and gravimetric surveying and reporting files;
  • leveling point height catalogues published until 1990 (in Russian);
  • triangulation network catalogues published before 1990 (in Russian);
  • catalogues of the national trigonometric network published from 1922 to 1942 in 12 volumes;
  • technical reports and catalogues of coordinates and heights of polygonometric points for cities, etc. populated areas;
  • topographic survey files;
  • scientific references and records;
  • educational literature in the fields of geodesy, cartography and topography in Russian.

2. Maps:

  • LR satellite maps M 1:50 000 (also in CD format);
  • topographic maps M 1:50 000 (military version, several editions - originals);
  • topographic maps M 1:50 000 (civilian version also in CD format);
  • topographic maps M 1:25 000 (military and civilian version - originals);
  • JOG 1: 250 000 (paper format - originals);
  • maps 1:25 000 (Riga, Daugavpils, Liepaja - originals in paper format);
  • topographic maps M 1:10 000 (territory of Latvia, Latvian-Belarusian, Latvian-Russian border, cities - originals in paper format);
  • topographic plans M 1: 2 000 Riga (military and civilian version - originals in paper format);
  • orthophoto maps M 1:2 000, 1:10 000;
  • city plans, district maps (M 1:25 000, 1:10 000, 1:5 000 - originals in paper format issued before 1990);
  • topographic maps M 1:200 000 (1942 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:100 000 originals in paper format issued in the period from 1948 to 1990 (1942 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:100 000 (1963 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:50 000 (1942 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:10 000 originals in paper format issued in the period from 1948 to 1990 (1963 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:25 000 (1942 coordinate system);
  • topographic maps M 1:25 000 (1963 coordinate system);
  • settlement plans M 1:2 000 (in the local coordinate system);
  • settlement plans M 1:5 000 (in the local coordinate system);
  • Latvian lakes M 1:5 000 (originals in paper format issued before 1990);
  • Baltic Sea M 1:10 000 (originals in paper format issued before 1990, in 1942 coordinate system);
  • map of Latvia M 1:75 000 (originals in paper format issued from 1929 - 1940);
  • redemarkation of the state border between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania (border description, border map);
  • M 1:10 000, catalogues of boundary marker coordinates, boundary mark outlines);
  • State border map of the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia M 1:5 000, description of the border and catalogue of coordinates.

3. Books:

  • "Sēlpils Parish";
  • "Zaube Parish. Places and Names";
  • "Geographical names of the Republic of Latvia for maps M 1:1 000 000";
  • "Catalogue of Latvian place names for maps M 1:1 000 000";
  • "Latvian villages. Names, geographical location";
  • "Liepa Parish";
  • "Geodesy".
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