Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets

Swiss humor. Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even “German humor” produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden is kind of its thing. Find it and laugh. Or don’t, and the joke’s on you! That evidence, as it turns out, is cartographic. The Swiss Federal Office of National Topography, Swisstopo for short, is…

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