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Saturday, February 20, 2021

The Cassini Map Of France


The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created yesteryear 4 generations of the Cassini solid unit of measurement inward the 18th together with 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the start genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation.

Remonter le Temps (go dorsum inward time) allows yous to sentiment the Carte de Cassini overlain on peak of a modern interactive map of France. This historical maps interface presents a lay out of French vintage maps, which likewise includes the Carte de l'etat major, a 1950 map of French Republic together with historical aerial imagery of French Republic from the 1950's & 60's.

Remonter le Temps provides a lay out of ways to sentiment the vintage maps. You tin sack sentiment an historical map side-by-side amongst the modern map of France, yous tin sack likewise conduct to switch betwixt the modern together with vintage maps or yous tin sack role an interesting 'lens' sentiment which shows a pocket-size round out pick of the historical map overlain on peak of the modern map of France.