Google and the Swiss Alpine Club (CAS) have launched a project to map a series of paths in Switzerland with the Google Trekker technology. Google's project was started a few years ago: to map not only ...

THE Phytogeographical Committee of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences has planned, and Dr. Emil Schmid prepared, a vagetation map of Switzerland to a scale of 1: 200,000 or about three miles to the ...

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From today’s perspective, the word “map” sounds rather outdated and antiquated, and yet maps and map-related products are more present than ever before in our everyday lives. I’m thinking here about ...

Vol. 10, No. 2, Mountain Geoecology and Land-Use Implications: Proceedings of the Symposium of the International Geographical Union Commission on High-Altitude Geoecology (May, 1978), pp. 168-184 (17 ...