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Mappeur was the term in Austria-Hungary for a (mostly) officer who mapped a region or an entire country on behalf of a military geographic institute . The result, the military survey of the country, the activity as mapping (compare with English map - German map) was referred to as mapping .

Mapping is generally used today in the sense of localizing and visualizing in various technical languages ​​from medicine to computer technology.

See also

• Franzisco-Josephinische Landaufnahme
• Franziszeische Landesaufnahme
• Josephine land survey
• Karl Kořistka
• Mind mapping

Individual evidence

1. ↑ map in Meyers 1905
2. ↑ Where does the term mapping come from? ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Lea Hyvärinen, MD: Functional Visual Field, (queried on June 11, 2009)
4. ↑ Map LAN

Web links

• geolab.cz: Presentation of the old maps of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia