I second the proposal to omit the Gall-Peters projection. Which
comedian had the gall to include it in the first place?!
The following Ordnance Survey one-inch (1:63,360) maps are perhaps
worth considering:
(A) 'Killarney' district sheet, 1913: reportedly unique and
innovative in its day as combining hachures, hill-shading, hyposometric
tinting and contours. It and a fewer others produced in similar style
in 1913-14 give a unique feel for landforms.
(B) Aldershot one-inch district sheets of 1914: these are very close to
the style of the 'Popular Edition' published from 1918 onwards, and are
thus forerunners in general style of later OS one-inch series,
culminating in the Seventh Series, and then the 1:50,000 Landranger
(and numerous non-British series). They would seem to have introduced
the principle of multi-colour, comparatively elaborate, depiction of
roads, combined with relief shown only by contours. [If anyone knows a
European series which exploits this principle, and dates from earlier
than Dec 1914, I and several others would be glad to learn of it.]
No doubt both the OS Seventh Series and the Landranger have their
advocates, but I think the Aldershot sheets 'win' on grounds of
innovation.
Richard Oliver
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S.,
Research Fellow in the History of Cartography
School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4RJ
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