Dufour Map

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The Dufour Map is a pioneering 19th-century topographic map of Switzerland, renowned for its precision and detail and produced under the direction of Swiss engineer and cartographer Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

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Dufour Map canonical 2
Swisstopo topographic maps 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf national map
topographic map
cartographer Guillaume-Henri Dufour
completionDate 1865
coordinateSystem Swiss coordinate system of the 19th century
country Switzerland
depictsFeature Jura Mountains
Lake Constance
Lake Geneva
Swiss Alps
Swiss Plateau
major Swiss rivers
director Guillaume-Henri Dufour
followedBy Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
surface form: modern Swiss National Maps
heritageStatus historically significant Swiss cartographic work
influenced later Swiss cartography
institutionalProducer Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
surface form: Swiss Confederation
language French
German
Italian
locationOfOriginals Swiss Federal Archives
Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
surface form: swisstopo archives
mainSubject Switzerland
mapSeries 25 sheets
namedAfter Guillaume-Henri Dufour
notableFor detailed relief representation
high precision
pioneering national survey of Switzerland
precededBy regional Swiss maps
printingTechnique copperplate engraving
productionStart 1832
projection conformal cylindrical projection
publicationEnd 1865
publicationStart 1845
publisher Federal Topographic Bureau
scale 1:100000
successor Siegfried Map
timePeriod 19th century
usedFor administration
civil engineering
military planning
scientific research
uses hachures for relief

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Nordend map Dufour Map
this entity surface form: Swisstopo topographic maps
Guillaume-Henri notableWork Dufour Map
subject surface form: Guillaume-Henri Dufour