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CIA terrain board collection.

Cuba

The collection consists of 34 groups of manuscript terrain maps of various regions of the world, prepared using Swiss "ridge and valley" techniques by the Central Intelligence Agency's terrain specialists. The base terrain maps (shaded relief and lowland tints) were drawn on boards created from two sheets of paper fused to an aluminum core. The boards are accompanied by 1 to 4 manuscript overlays showing reference line work, etc. The collection documents sophisticated manual terrain mapping techniques now generally replaced by computer generated terrain renderings using digital data. The majority of the maps were prepared using Lambert's conformal conic projection, while the remainder use the universal transverse Mercator projection.

Date
1958
Mapmaker / publisher
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Place
Cuba
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Sheets
2
Original size
14,755 × 10,926 pixels

Public domain

Reason: a US government work (Central Intelligence Agency).

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Credit line

"CIA terrain board collection." (1958). United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIA_terrain_board_collection._LOC_2012586886-14.jpg

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