New The 21St Century Cassini Map Of France

The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created yesteryear 4 generations of the Cassini identify unit of measurement inwards the 18th as well as 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the outset genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation.

You tin persuasion all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on summit of Google Maps on the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

French interactive mapping specialists Carte Libre convey created a rather beautiful interactive map inspired yesteryear 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 amongst the Leaflet map platform. I'm certain the map volition endure of corking involvement to students of heraldry. For me soundless it is far to a greater extent than interesting equally an representative of the score of command developers convey inwards styling OpenStreetMap information to practise actually beautiful interactive maps.