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c3534l
1203 days ago
It seems natural that people living in the mountains would have a robust topographical tradition.
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folli
1203 days ago
As you might have guessed, military purposes were a big driver (it was an army general that was initially tasked in producing the first high quality maps covering the whole country)
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