SURVEYS AND MAPS 5 I 



French 



For general maps of all the French territories the magnificent 

 Atlas des Colonies Franfaises, edited by M. Grandidier (1933), is a 

 most important reference work. It includes orographical, political, 

 geological, rainfall, economic, and other maps, and must be of 

 great value to all concerned with administration or development. 

 Such a publication for the British territories would be invaluable. 



The Service Geographique de I'Armee, Paris, publishes of Algeria 

 1:200,000 and 1:50,000; of Tunisia 1:200,000, 1:100,000, and 

 1:50,000; the same Department and its sub-section, the Service 

 Geographique du Maroc, produces 1:200,000, 1:100,000 and 

 1 :50,ooo of Morocco. There is also a general series on i :500,ooo 

 which extends well into the Sahara. 



For French West Africa the Service Geographique de I'Armee re- 

 produces the final editions of the maps prepared by the Service 

 Geographique de I'Afrique Occidentale Frangaise at Dakar. All 

 French West Africa and the adjoining countries are covered by 

 sheets on the 1:1,000,000 scale published in Paris and the Dakar 

 department has produced a compiled series on i :500,ooo. There 

 is in addition a 1:200,000 series of parts of Senegal, Guinea, the 

 Ivory Coast, Niger Colony, Sudan, and Mauritania, a 1:100,000 

 of a small part of Senegal and of Southern Dahomey, and a 

 1:50,000 of part of French Guinea. 



For French Equatorial Africa there is a 1:1 ,000,000 map published 

 in 1935 by the Service Geographique de I'Armee. Other small- 

 scale maps have been published by the same organization and by 

 the Ministry of Colonies. 



The Cameroons and Togoland areas administered by the French 

 are covered by the 1:1,000,000 mentioned above. They have no 

 general series other than the German compiled maps on i :300,ooo 

 for the Cameroons and i :200,ooo for Togoland. Small-scale maps 

 of both areas are published by the Ministry of Colonies, Paris. 



French Somaliland is mapped by the same Ministry, the largest 

 scale being i :500,ooo. 



Madagascar has an active survey and mapping establishment. It 

 possesses 1:200,000 and 1:100,000 topographic maps which mark 

 steady progress. Various small-scale general maps are also pro- 

 duced. 



