Chart of the local service

The chart of the local service is a topographic chart of the France “drawn up by order of the Minister of Interior Department”.

Published in the scale from the 1/100000 of 1880 to 1914 (years to be checked), this chart is a derivative product of the Geological Survey map (scale of 1/80000 and monochromic) by reduction and color application. Each pulling comprises the seal in relief of the local service.

Colors

The chart is quadricolore:

Blue: Hydrography
Green: Thickets, Red Wood, Forests
: Roads and Black way
: Relief, Toponymy, Railways, limits administrative,…

Relief

A shading makes it possible to appreciate the relief. Coasts of altitude drawn from the Geological Survey map appears there in blue; those of the general Nivellement of France appeared in the editions of the beginning of the 20th century are underlined.

Vocation of the chart

Whereas the Geological Survey map was conceived by and for the soldiers (Dépôt of the War), the chart of the local service concerns the ministry for the interior. The cutting of the chart is on a scale canton. The communal limits as well as the population of each commune appear on the chart. Polychromy makes it possible to emphasize the transportation routes (in red) whose maintenance and management concern the local service namely:

Trunk roads
secondary Roads
Ways of great communication
Ways of shared interest
ordinary Local roads

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