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Digitising maps

9. December 202112. February 2016 Markus Appenzeller

Folding maps from the nineteenth century are currently being digitised for the Map Collection at ETH Library’s Digitisation Centre. During the preparation work for the digitisation project, I stumbled across a railway map: it consists of sixteen loose sheets that, assembled correctly, depict

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Categories *Holdings, MAPS, Maps and Geoinformation, Railroads Leave a comment
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Swiss skiing tour maps

9. December 202110. February 2012 Markus Appenzeller

The article from 20.1.2011 talks about skiing maps from the early days of ski sport. In recent years, skiing tours in Switzerland have boomed. In the early years, the high mountains were primarily scaled on skis in the springtime, when the snow cover was hardened and the risk or

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Internment camps in Switzerland

9. December 202112. August 2011 Markus Appenzeller

Around 50,000 French, Belgian and Polish soldiers and civilian refugees fleeing from the Wehrmacht crossed the Swiss border in Neuchatel Jura in June 1940. They were disarmed and detained in camps. The map detail depicts the internment camps on 3 July 1940. The French

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