{"id":2003,"date":"2013-09-23T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2013-09-22T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T19:38:58","slug":"swisstopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/swisstopo\/","title":{"rendered":"175 years of maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"geneve\"<\/a>
\nYou’ve gotta hand it to the swiss. Follow this link<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0you will land in an interactive high-resolution historical map of Switzerland, with an impressive detail level that allows you to time-travel 175 years in map-making, witnessing city walls being replaced by roads and towns engulfed by cities. Mind you: this is for all Switzerland<\/em>, not just a city.<\/p>\n

Also: beautiful-yet-functional typography. Look at this g<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"cologny\"<\/p>\n

Also: 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of Thomas Cook’s first tour of Switzerland<\/a>. A fascinating story that the author Diccon Bewes retells in his book,\u00a0Slow Train to Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(oh, yeah, and it’s also the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Also: When we were living in Barcelona, I found a similar resource made available by the cccb: historical maps of the city<\/a>, overlapped.<\/p>\n

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You’ve gotta hand it to the swiss. Follow this link\u00a0and\u00a0you will land in an interactive high-resolution historical map of Switzerland, with an impressive detail level that allows you to time-travel 175 years in map-making, witnessing city walls being replaced by roads and towns engulfed by cities. Mind you: this is for all Switzerland, not just… Continue reading 175 years of maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1939,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/drawing-the-world-by-hand\/","url_meta":{"origin":2003,"position":0},"title":"Drawing the world by hand","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"02\/04\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At Lucerne's Gletschergarten,\u00a0among old maps, models and reliefs of the Swiss Alps, we'll find an expo from Ueli L\u00c3\u00a4uppi, a local cartographer that makes hand drawings and colorings of maps using a particular projection that highlights a thorough representation of the mountains. 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