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Swiss Historical Maps Allow Journey Through Time In Your Browser

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-dinosaurs-i-checked dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Swiss Federal Office of Topography has published a complete set of digitized historical maps from 1938 to 2011. The twist: a browser application allows you to create a time travel movie at any place in Switzerland for any zoom level. As an example, you can see the recession of Europe's biggest glacier over the last 75 years. The application is the most recent effort of the Swiss Government to make geodata freely available to the public at no cost using open source software and will include maps dating as far back as 1838."

2 of 32 comments (clear)

  1. I have an idea by Tokolosh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can this system be patented: Not criminalizing people for liberating data because is it already free?

    I know that Switzerland has very clever patent clerks.

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  2. Bah developers suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It doesn't work in IE 6. Can they fix it by the end of the day?

    Sincerely, PHB