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Managed by I.G.N., all French geodesic terminals are available on an interactive & collaborative map tool for smartphone available on google store: "géodésie de poche". Each terminal is fully detailed with lat/long/altitude RGF93 ellipsoïd location and photo. They can be remarkable points such as
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