{"id":2145,"date":"2016-06-03T19:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2016-06-03T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:57:18","slug":"eduard-imhof-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/eduard-imhof-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduard Imhof Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eduard Imhof - Swiss Cartographer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/164529891?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/164529891\">A profile of Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof<\/a>, famous for his work on relief mapping, from a 1983 Swiss TV program. Captioned in English if you can&#8217;t understand Swiss German for some reason. (Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hkartor.se\">Henrik Johansson<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n<p>More on Imhof at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reliefshading.com\/cartographers\/imhof\/\">Relief Shading<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrainmodels.com\/imhof.html\">Terrain Models<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eduard_Imhof\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2007\/05\/imhofs_cartographic_relief_presentation.php\">Imhof&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Cartographic Relief Presentation<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2010\/09\/codex_99_on_berann_imhof_and_everest.php\">Codex 99 on Berann, Imhof and Everest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof, famous for his work on relief mapping, from a 1983 Swiss TV program. Captioned in English if you can&#8217;t understand Swiss German for some reason. (Thanks to\u00a0Henrik Johansson&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/eduard-imhof-profile\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[526,210,258],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-cartography","tag-imhof","tag-relief-maps","tag-switzerland","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1811567,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/imhofs-high-school-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":2145,"position":0},"title":"Imhof&#8217;s High School Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 January 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Well, would you look at that. The David Rumsey Map Collection has uploaded a copy of the 1969 edition of the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas\u2014a Swiss school atlas\u2014edited by none other than Eduard Imhof. From the 1930s through the 1970s Imhof was responsible for Swiss school atlases at both the primary and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A relief map of a part of Switzerland. From Eduard Imhof (ed.), Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, 15th ed. (Z\u00fcrich, 1969), p. 7. 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(The German edition, Ingenieure der Kartenkunst, came out last January.) \u201cThis publication provides a comprehensive overview of 170 years of cartography at ETH Zurich\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cartography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/engineers-of-map-art.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1806409,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/the-people-who-draw-rocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":2145,"position":3},"title":"&#8216;The People Who Draw Rocks&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Melting glaciers are keeping a special team of cartographers at Swisstopo, Switzerland\u2019s national mapping agency, busy: they\u2019re the ones charged with making changes to the Swiss alps on Swisstopo\u2019s maps. The New York Times reports: \u201cThe glaciers are melting, and I have more work to do,\u201d as Adrian D\u00e4hler, part\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":772,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/mapping-swiss-german-dialects\/","url_meta":{"origin":2145,"position":4},"title":"Mapping Swiss German Dialects","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Researchers are mapping the shift in Swiss German dialect usage via an iOS app. The app asks\u00a0users to take a 16-question survey based on maps from a language atlas that mapped Swiss German usage circa 1950.\u00a0The app predicts the user's actual home dialect location based on those maps; differences between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linguistics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"swiss-german-app","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5090,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/trafimage-interactive-swiss-railway-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":2145,"position":5},"title":"Trafimage: Interactive Swiss Railway Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"I've seen real-time maps of Swiss trains\u00a0before; this one, Trafimage, comes courtesy of the Swiss Federal Railways, and includes all kinds of information about the network: rail and bus lines, stations, fare networks, as well as real-time train data. 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