Giles,
Not wanting Scottish maps to be forgotten in this cartographic line up...
Although not mechanically-reproduced, I think an excellent case could be made for the Roy Military Survey Map of Scotland (1747-55) - http://www.nls.uk/maps/roy/index.html - not only on aesthetic terms and presentation of relief, but also the influence it had on what became Ordnance Survey and Military Survey, and related 18th c. military mapping around the world. (etc., etc... see the recent "Great Map" facsimile prefatory essays for a much better justification!)
Kirkwood's 'Plan and Elevation of the New Town of Edinburgh' (1819) - http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/towns.cfm?id=418 - for its impressive and attractive flattening of all the elevations of buildings within a two-dimensional map, and beautifully engraved.
A good case could be made too for Bartholomew's layer colouring - for example, their Bathymetrical Survey charts with relief and depths -http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/bathymetric/index.html - and also other thematic mapping, such as JG Bartholomew's 'Chronological map of Edinburgh showing expansion of the City from earliest days to the present' (1919) - http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/towns.cfm?id=412
Chris Fleet
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Subject: Map 'Graphic Classics'
I've been asked to compile a list of 50 or so maps that have become 'graphic classics' in one way and another, for a book on graphic classics.
The criteria for inclusion are very broad. Basically they include maps which established important new principles that then became standard, or which significantly advanced the science of cartography. They also include maps which are important or fine in design terms. There's no starting or cut-off date, but anything pre-mechanical reproduction would have to have a strong argument attached to be included.
The list to date includes Beck's Underground map, John Snow's cholera map of 1854, the first weather map, Ortelius's world atlas of c. 1570, a population density map, and the Gall-Peters' projection, as examples.
I would be very interested to hear what maps members of the cartographic community would include on such a list. As well as maps from centuries ago, I'm also looking for maps which have been published in the last 30 years or so which have become graphic classics, or look like they may do so.
Giles Darkes
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