The Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created past times 4 generations of the Cassini solid unit of measurement inwards the 18th together with 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the commencement genuinely accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation.
You tin persuasion all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on peak of Google Maps on the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
French interactive mapping specialists Carte Libre accept 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 together with towns.
The maps was created using OpenStreetMap information alongside the Leaflet map platform. I'm certain the map volition hold upwards of swell involvement to students of heraldry. For me yet it is far to a greater extent than interesting equally an event of the marking of command developers accept inwards styling OpenStreetMap information to job actually beautiful interactive maps.
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