Brunet and the revival of French geography and cartography

In France, with the emergence of the geographical research group RECLUS, a new research organisation model has developed that benefits both geography and cartography, the latter through its emphasis on computer-production of thematic maps and its introduction and stimulation of the use of cartographic software packages. The trademark of the RECLUS research group is its use of chorèmes, cartographic models that retain dynamic and hierarchic relationships in spatial representation. These have been developed by Roger Brunet into a sign-language with which relational models of regions can be built, stressing aspects of spatial organisation not rendered by traditional maps.