French ski resort maps

February 18, 2003  |  Stefan Magdalinski
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I wanted to draw people’s attention to what I think is an excellent piece of representation- the Ski resort maps they produce in France.

This is about the best scan I’ve found (and it’s not brilliant), and I can find no information about them at all, but they are clear, easy to read, represent all the relevant data, and most impressively of all, manage to represent multi-valley systems in a way that preserves the pattern, arrangement, curvature and length of lifts and slopes. They are obviously a gross distortion, but they work brilliantly.

Does anyone have any more information about these maps?