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Subject:        RE: French map symbols
Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:37:37 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Hi, David (Cobb)!

By chance, this afternoon I found a printout of your request to 'MAPS-L'
of 16 July 2003 - subject heading as per above - wherein you ask "Is
anyone aware of a symbols sheet for the French Service geographique de
l'Armee?  Specifically, . . . an Asie 1:1, 000, 000 series (surveyed in
1899) which includes several different boundary demarcations but do not
include a legend or guide to symbols . . ."  It seems that no response
has been elicited since then (or I missed it).

I have turned up our copy of 'Ecriture et signes conventionnels pour les
cartes au 1.000.000e.', produced by the SGA, in a printing that is
date-coded 20 September 1904.  In addition to the general (worldwide)
applicable symbols - which have only 'Limite d'Etat' and 'Limite de
Province' - there are two panels headed 'Asie centrale'; but these
latter do not have anything special for boundary demarcations.

In addition - or alternatively - we can offer you SGA's trilingual (D,
E, & F) 'Signes conventionnels et types d'ecriture de la Carte
internationale du monde a l'echelle du 1,000,000e.' of July 1914 (with
pen & ink inscription at top right "From Report of Paris Conference
1913").  On this there are four boundary types shown: Limite d'Etat,
[Limite] d'Etat non abornee, [Limite] Litigieuse, and [Limite] de
province ou de departement.  I believe that not *all* of your Asie 1:1M
series would have been surveyed, engraved, printed, and published in
1899 [?], so either or both of our symbols/conventional signs sheets
could be of value?  We await your further orders, sir.

Francis Herbert
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