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Maps of France - Features on France
France
is a diverse country and as such remains a popular travel
destination for tourists around the world. From the UK alone,
6.9 million Brits visited France last year with the Channel
Tunnel carrying no less than 11% of all of the UK holiday
traffic going abroad! Of course, these trips also vary from
the one-day dash across the Channel to the hypermarche to
the family camping holiday in French campsites, from skiing
in the Alps to climbing in the Pyrénées, from
a weekend in a Paris hotel to weeks spent touring the Châteux
of the Loire. From the first ever hire of a Gîte to
the closing of the deal on your dream retreat property in
the Dordogne or Provence, from the lazy canal cruise through
Burgundy to wine tastings just about anywhere in France,
we've got the maps, touring guides and personal stories
to fire your imagination! In this expanding section, Features
on France, we not only introduce the mapping agency,
Institut Géographic National (IGN), responsible for
ensuring all those touring France find their destination,
but we also provide you with some personal dispatches of
those who love France enough to buy a property in Toulouse
and those who just enjoy France as a holiday destination…
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The
Institut Géographic National (IGN ) is France's national survey agency.
IGN has a long and established tradition in producing topographical mapping of
the highest quality for France. From their wonderful detailed topographic mapping
series Bleue (Top25) and (Top100) to specific French walking maps or touring maps,
maps of French railways, maps of cycling routes in France, maps of French golf
courses, maps of France's wine regions and even of French monasteries and abbeys!
Gain an insider's view of this major French map publisher in this article by Jacob
Genelle, who used to work as a cartographer for IGN. Click here
to read it.
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for links to information on the different regions of France.
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for links to information on Paris and its environs. |
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for links to information on the main cities and Channel ports
of France. |
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for links to information on other French towns. |
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