Is cartography an act of war?

Every country has its own mapping style. Of course with countries that have irregular land borders, some mapping of your neighbour's territory is inevitable. But could mapping large areas of their territory, deep into it, be a hostile act?

In the past, countries have resisted surveying by foreigners - Tibet resisted British survey expeditions in the 19 C, and Soviet Russia was very secretive about its maps, meanwhile possessing quite detailed maps of Western Europe, names handily transcribed into Cryillic for the benefit of occupying Red Army soldiers.

Interestingly the UK's Ordnance Survey does not include Northern Ireland, or the Channel islands - although it does cover the Isle of Man, which, unlike NI is technically not a part of the UK. And of course the OS itself was born out of a 'hostile international act', the need to quell those pesky Scots and their Jacobite Rebellion.

I'm intrigued as French mapping at the 1:100,000 scale does extend quite deep into neighbouring States, and this trans-border coverage is maximised by having often very minimal overlap between bordering sheets within the country. Moreover the older French Michelin maps, 1;200,000, going back to pre WW2, went so far beyond French borders as to cover the whole of Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, and large areas of Spain, Italy,Austria and Germany too. Even Portugal was covered. Portugal, the Netherlands and Austria don't even come anywhere near to bordering France. Napoleon would have loved this.

Anyone else come across cartography of someone else's country as a quasi-hostile act, or is this just for the conveience of internationally-travelling map users (non-military that is).

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