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 ...

Google and the Swiss Alpine Club (CAS) have launched a project to map a series of paths in Switzerland with the Google Trekker technology. Google's project was started a few years ago: to map not only ...

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From today’s perspective, the word “map” sounds rather outdated and antiquated, and yet maps and map-related products are more present than ever before in our everyday lives. I’m thinking here about ...

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. ...

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 ...

The women's map points out sites other than just tourist attractions in Zurich. swiss-image Switzerland's biggest city, Zurich, has unveiled the country's first map exclusively for women. The map is a ...

Google seems aware of this. When you look at a map of Switzerland on Google Maps, the Romansch name for the country (Svizra) isn't even included. However, for reasons that are entirely unclear, the ...