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As a Swiss guy, I had no idea this was a thing. But then again, I'm also not surprised we needed to have our own special way of doing it.
by steve1977 4y ago
As a Swiss guy, I had no idea this was a thing. But then again, I'm also not surprised we needed to have our own special way of doing it.
- folli 4y agoI think it's a very interesting bit of Swiss history. All the work of Dufour (the General of the Swiss Confederation Forces in the Sonderbundskrieg) and his team in measuring, mapping and producing one of the highest quality topographical maps that still holds up today.
- billfruit 4y agoBut Dufour maps use "hachure" [0] lines for relief, not this type of shading, I think. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachure_map?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachure_map?wprov=sfla1
- c3534l 4y agoIt seems natural that people living in the mountains would have a robust topographical tradition.
- folli 4y agoAs you might have guessed, military purposes were a big driver (it was an army general that was initially tasked in producing the first high quality maps covering the whole country)