(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Few people know that behind Google Maps lies a Swiss entrepreneur's intuition and Switzerland's extensive experience in cartography. This is how Switzerland contributed to the ...

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 ...

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The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do. A cartographer at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. Jürg Gilgen draws the first lines of the Cornettes de ...