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Switzerland’s long-standing love of cartography

Switzerland’s long history of cartography stretches back to an era of military nation-building efforts. But since then it’s been interest in mountaineering, tourism, and – more recently – digitalisation – that has brought the world-famous Swiss maps to a wider public.

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