Published on 8 January 2024

Dufour Map

The 1:100,000 topographic map of Switzerland (Dufour Map) was the first official series of maps that encompassed the whole of the country. It was published in the period from 1845 to 1865 and thus coincides with the creation of the modern Swiss Confederation. 

A section of the Dufour map in the area of Zurich. The map is in black and white and shows the centre of the city with the lake. The detail from sheet 8 of the first edition of the Dufour Map at the scale of 1:100,000 dates from 1861.

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