Maybe some of the earliest attempts to map census data in the 1851
census report, such as this population density map:
http://histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)&active=yes&mno=27&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=49
and even more this map of occupations:
http://histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)&active=yes&mno=30&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=4500&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank
(not an especially good image, but it is a VERY complex map).
However, I also wonder about:
(a) Purely conceptual maps illustrating theories, notably
Christaller's hexagons and Burgess's rings (which are just about a
map of Chicago).
(b) The slightly less conceptual map used by Ebenezer Howard to
illustrate "Garden Cities of Tomorrow".
(c) The map of Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings.
Best wishes,
Humphrey Southall
At 12:08 28/01/2008, you wrote:
>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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