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to symbolize the relief (a granularity of 10 metres (33 ft) for the 1:25 000 pages, and 30 metres (98 ft) for the 1:50 000 pages). In addition, three colors were used directly for printing, whereas the Dufour Map was initially monochrome. On the Siegfried Map, the colours used were brown
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The area covered by the former scale was initially divided into 462 pages, and the other area into 142 pages, with the two areas overlapping in places. A format of 35 centimetres (14 in) x 24 centimetres (9.4 in) for each page was common to both scales.
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Until 1949, there were occasional revised editions of Siegfried Map pages. From 1952, the Siegfried and Dufour Maps were replaced by the new
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for the contour lines on vegetated terrain, blue for water and contour lines on glaciers, and black for the rest.
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The Siegfried Map was based on the original records that had already been created for the earlier
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Siegfried Map in the map collection of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography
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The Siegfried Map projection was a cone equivalent, as for the Dufour Map.
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Another significant departure from the Dufour Map was the presence of
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Images of all first editions and later editions of the Siegfried Map
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The print mode used for the 1:25,000 pages was initially
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