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Intro
The Comision Geografico Explorada was a political, and military organization which was responsible for surveying, mapping and quantifying territory of Mexico from 1877 to 1910. they were also responsible for the creation, manufacture, and distribution of these maps, as well as playing an important part in the training and employment of future Mexican politicians and military leaders.

History
The Comision Geografico Explorada was a cartographic agency created by Agustin Diaz because of a direct order from Porfirio Diaz in 1877 to his minister of development demanding he appoint a commission to review the state of Mexican geography. According to the work of Raymond B Craib Agustin Diaz who was the first person to be in charge of the commission reviewed some 500 odd maps and determined that the standardization on the maps was so bad that the whole collection was useless as they could not be compared to or used with each other. as such Agustin Diaz suggested to Porfirio Diaz that the state start over and create a new agency from scratch which Porfirio Diaz agreed to. shortly after the commission officially came into existence with Agustin Diaz as its head and with the goal of systematically creating a master map of Mexico at a scale of 1:100,000 while collecting all the necessary data entirely themselves, doing all the necessary fieldwork measuring distances, fixing control points, and taking astronomical measurements with the most up to date techniques and with the most modern (and expensive) equipment.

Early Years
Due to financial challenges faced by Porfirio Diazes new regime the Comision Geografico Explorada started out as a very humble organization with just 9 employees very limited amounts of equipment, capital, and means of transportation. due to the organizations limited resources and because it was based in Mexico city Agustin Diaz decided to begin work on Mexico's master map in and around the city of Puebla securing its reputation and demonstrating the organizations crucial role to the Mexican congress so that in 1881 the organization had moved its base of operations to Xalapa Veracruz and by the 1884-1885 fiscal year its budget had nearly doubled allowing the CGE to set up its own map production offices

C G E's established place in the Mexican government
in order to deal with the cges growing manpower concerns the Mexican government made service in the cge a requirement for graduation from the mexican military academy. this had the effect of solving the cges manpower problem and the having the effect of ensuring the majority of officers who were hand picked by Porfirio Diaz out of the cge to be mayors, governors, and other regional powerbrokers were fairly competent and well equipped to perform well in there new positions. this system also shows the cges integration into Porfirio Diazes political system