{"id":945,"date":"2016-02-19T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:25:04","slug":"around-switzerland-in-80-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/around-switzerland-in-80-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Switzerland in 80 Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Local<\/em> profiles<\/a>\"around-switzerland-80-maps\"<\/a> Lausanne-based game and book company\u00a0Helvetiq<\/a>, which last year published<\/a>\u00a0Diccon Bewes’s\u00a0Around Switzerland in 80 Maps<\/a><\/em>. Those maps range, according to the publisher, “from the circular island map of 1480 to the birth of modern Swiss cartography; from the British rail plan for Switzerland to a Soviet map of Basel during the Cold War; from the 1970s Zurich map for men to the vision of a Greater Switzerland with 40 cantons.” Buy at Amazon<\/a>. [via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Local profiles Lausanne-based game and book company\u00a0Helvetiq, which last year published\u00a0Diccon Bewes’s\u00a0Around Switzerland in 80 Maps. Those maps range, according to the publisher, “from the circular island map of 1480 to the birth of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[30,258],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-history","tag-books","tag-switzerland","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1380,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/new-national-maps-of-switzerland\/","url_meta":{"origin":945,"position":0},"title":"New National Maps of Switzerland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Switzerland is updating its official map series. The new maps\u00a0are digitally based and use new fonts,\u00a0symbols\u00a0and colours\u2014railways, for example, are now in red. They replace the 1:25,000 series that dates back to the 1950s; all\u00a0247 sheets\u00a0should\u00a0be replaced by 2019. 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