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Imagine mapping an entire country. By hand. Without GPS. 😅

The result? The Dufour Map – Switzerland’s first official map covering the whole country. But @DanielsimsSteiner doesn’t just look at it in an archive. He sets out to discover what it actually took to measure Switzerland back then.

🎥 Watch the full experience now in the video linked to this short.

The result? The Dufour Map – Switzerland’s first official map covering the whole country. But @DanielsimsSteiner doesn’t just look at it in an archive. He sets out to discover what it actually took to measure Switzerland back then.

🎥 Watch the full experience now in the video linked to this short.

Imagine mapping an entire country. By hand. Without GPS. 😅

There’s literally an A in SwitzerlAnd. And what does A stand for? Autumn. Obviously. Case closed.

And no reason to investigate it any further.

There’s nothing suspicious about Swiss autumn being this quiet.

Just apparently not ours. How convenient.

Chase believes in the truth.

How did mapping Switzerland work long before GPS — and how was the famous Dufour map created? Daniel scales alpine peaks and goes deep into historic archives to uncover just how Switzerland’s most famous map was made.

A huge thank you to Swisstopo for their hospitality – for opening their doors and archives and helping Daniel learn about the history behind the mapping of Switzerland.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Saas-Fee
02:50 Swisstopo
03:47 Map history & triangulation
08:47 Guillaume Henri Dufour
11:00 Mapping tech
14:45 Unified Switzerland
15:53 Allalinhorn peak
17:23 Dufour map details

Daniel Steiner (@DanielsimsSteiner) is a filmmaker and journalist who explores cities around the world, revealing hidden layers of history through maps.

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