The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created past times iv generations of the Cassini household unit of measurement inward the 18th as well as 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the start genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation.
You tin persuasion all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on acme of Google Maps on the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
French interactive mapping specialists Carte Libre bring created a rather beautiful interactive map inspired past times the Cassini Maps. Blason des Communes, Départements et Régions de France is a map showing the coats of arms of all French regions as well as towns.
The maps was created using OpenStreetMap information alongside the Leaflet map platform. I'm certain the map volition last of peachy involvement to students of heraldry. For me notwithstanding it is far to a greater extent than interesting every bit an event of the marker of command developers bring inward styling OpenStreetMap information to practise actually beautiful interactive maps.
