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New online tool enables `time travel’

What did Bern look like in 1950? How did the glaciers change over the decades? To answer these questions and more, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo has developed an online viewer showing all official Swiss maps since their very beginning, 175 years ago. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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