![]() ![]() ![]() The Diretoria de Serviço Geográfico (DSG), of the Ministério do Exército, Brasília, originated in 1890, but acquired its present name and structure in 1946. The agency was established under its present name in 1971 and is now responsible for the collection, analysis and production of census statistics as well as geodetic and topographic survey. The Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia Estatística (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, originated in 1937 as the Conselho National de Geografía, with the mission to plan and expedite the mapping of the country, beginning with a modern version of the 1:1,000,000 scale map constructed from new trimetrogon photography and completed in 1946. ![]() Two organizations, one civilian and one military, share responsibility for most, but not all, of the official topographic mapping of Brazil. ![]()
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