Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: . The Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), along with many other contributors, produced a 1:50,000 Mount Everest map in 1988. This article focuses on the making of this map at swisstopo, which has not been presented in detail up to now. Today’s map production is mentioned for comparison. The article finishes off with some personal notes by the article author, a former trainee and later working mate of Francis Comtesse, the team leader of the Mount Everest map project at swisstopo.
Source: Proceedings of the ICA
Author: Jürg Gilgen
Institution: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405511125