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Subject: Re: raised relief maps
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:01:44 -0500
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>




Just by way of history, these are quite interesting, and date at least as far back (maybe further, as I am not really expert) as Vauban, the French Military engineer, and Louis XIV:

ARMY ORGANISATION

Plan-relief de Neuf-Brisach

Relief-map of Neuf-Brisach
In 1679, Vauban created the first pioneer and miners company.
He also created raised relief maps together with Louvois (Louis XIV's war minister) These scale-models ( scale 1/600) of major fortified places and towns are a very important source of information for the historains of geography and architecture. The models that remain today are displayed in the Invalides museum in Paris and the Beaux-Arts museum of Lille.


I am not sure the image will come through, but there is the related Musee des Plans-Reliefs: http://www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr/# .

             Joel Kovarsky

Angie Cope wrote:
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Subject:        Re: [MAPS-L] raised relief maps
Date:   Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:39:13 -0500
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Visually impaired persons, in my limited experience, also have alot to
gain from access to materials of this type.

Best,
Tom

Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
Director, Pleiades Project
Ancient World Mapping Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quoting Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>:

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Balancing out these 'issues' is the unique and quite fascinating
perspective you get on a landscape when using raised relief maps. It's a
wonderful way to see the land in three dimensions, second only to a
window seat in a low flying airplane! 



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