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Édouard-Gaston Deville
?–1924
WA-00021446
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Édouard-Gaston Daniel Deville, was the first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry, the making of maps based on photography. A Frenchman who was naturalized Canadian, he was the Surveyor General of Canada (1885–1924) and Canada's Director General for the Bureau of Surveys (1922–1924). During his lifetime, Canadian surveyors had used his phototopography to map 83,678 square kilometres, roughly the size of Ireland.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago
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