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  2. Geography of France - Wikipedia

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    A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).

  3. Cassini map - Wikipedia

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    Versailles on the Cassini map. The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family, mainly César-François Cassini (Cassini III) and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV) in the 1700s.

  4. Cartography of France - Wikipedia

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    Hand-drawn map of one side of the Valley of Vesdre by French geographers (led by the Cassini family) from 1745 to 1748. In France, the first general maps of the territory using a measuring apparatus were made by the Cassini family during the 18th century on a scale of 1:86,400 (one centimeter on the chart corresponds to approximately 864 meters on the ground).

  5. File:France map Lambert-93 topographic with regions and ...

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    English: Blank topographic map of France in the official Lambert-93 projection, with regions boundaries. Note: The background map is a raster image embedded in the SVG file. Français : Carte topographique vierge de la France suivant la projection officielle Lambert-93, avec limites des régions et des départements.

  6. National mapping agency - Wikipedia

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    The Institut Géographique National (IGN) produces topographic maps of France at 1:25,000 and 1:50,000. [24] In addition, topographic maps are freely accessible online, through the Géoportail website.

  7. Topographic map - Wikipedia

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    The first multi-sheet topographic map series of an entire country, the Carte géométrique de la France, was completed in 1789. [9] The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, started by the East India Company in 1802, then taken over by the British Raj after 1857 was notable as a successful effort on a larger scale and for accurately determining ...

  8. Géoportail - Wikipedia

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    Géoportail is a comprehensive web mapping service of the French government that publishes maps and geophysical aerial photographs from more than 90 sources for France and its territories. The service, first developed by two public agencies (the IGN and the BRGM ), was officially inaugurated on 23 June 2006 by president Jacques Chirac .

  9. Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière

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    topographic maps on the 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 scales; road maps on the 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000 scales (this last one covers metropolitan France on one sheet). maps of foreign countries; ICAO aeronautical maps on the 1:500,000 scale for visual flying (VFR). The IGN is also in charge of the Géoportail.