!!!Militärgeographisches Institut

Military Geography, Institute of (Militaergeographisches Institut), 
Vienna, was formed in 1839 by the union of the Milan Geographic 
Institute, founded 1814, and the Vienna Topographic Institute of the 
k. k. General Staff Quartermaster (k. k. 
General-Quartiermeisterstab), established in 1806; considerably 
contributed to the development of Austrian  Cartography. During the 
1%%sup st/%  Republic it was turned into the "Cartographic Institute", 
which was the forerunner of the present-day "Landesaufnahme" (Land 
Survey) department in the Federal Office of  Weights, Measures and 
Surveying.


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