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Map making has always been a heated business, and even with the technological advances of cartography in the Internet age, the political aspects of cartography haven't gone away. In particular, Google ...

Martin Gurtner revs up the engine and tries to take his jeep up a steep muddy track through a forest near Bern. He’s a topographer – one of the frontline warriors at the Federal Office of Topography. ...

“A map is the perfect pictorial way to explain and entertain,” writes Diccon Bewes, author of Around Switzerland in 80 Maps, a new book that charts more than 500 years of Swiss history using maps of ...

THE Phytogeographical Committee of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences has planned, and Dr. Emil Schmid prepared, a vagetation map of Switzerland to a scale of 1: 200,000 or about three miles to the ...

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