In particular, Google Maps has blundered into a variety of geopolitical controversies in recent years, and this week it seems to have found another. Yes, Google has pissed of the Swiss. On ...

Map making has always been a heated business, and even with the technological advances of cartography in the Internet age, the political aspects of cartography haven't gone away. In particular ...

THE Phytogeographical Committee of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences has planned, and Dr. Emil Schmid prepared, a vagetation map of Switzerland to a scale of 1: 200,000 or about three miles to ...

Federer knew something about Graubunden and I needed to find out what. Known in English as Grisons, Graubunden is in the southeastern part of Switzerland, bordering Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein.