Geoportail.fr with new design

My favorite source of Corsica’s on-line maps — Geoportail.fr — launched new design a couple of days ago. Its look and feel is neater and more modern now, functionality slightly better and the maps — well, they are the same, at least the ones of Corsica.

It’s easier to combine more different layers (IGN maps, aerial maps etc.) now, even though I haven’t been using this feature very often. Most of the time I work with the plain IGN maps layer in the scales of 1:20000 or 1:10000, which show all “official” hiking trails. See the example of Calvi in 1:10000 below.

Géoportail.fr – basic mode with an IGN map of Calvi

The next screen shot shows an example of the aerial maps in full-screen mode. It’s the centre of Corte with its famous citadel. As you can see, the resolution is higher than in Google Maps, but the image is somewhat blurred.

Géoportail.fr – full-screen mode with an aerial map of Corte