Map Symbols: Land Use | Latvia | 1920s | Making Maps: DIY Cartography

Map Symbols: Land Use | Latvia | 1920s

November 11, 2011 by John Krygier

Map symbols for river and river related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book

Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem

(Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans)

Ministry of Agriculture

Riga, Latvia, 1928.

Original plate with translation to English below:

p = parkland

n = marshland

v = heath

zp = fens

s = sand / desert

sp = moss bog

grb = gravel pit

ak = stone pit

kp = peat bog

akl = quarry

sb = sand pit

mb = clay pit

on February 28, 2013 at 7:54 am | Reply Vanessa Schrapps

Those are simply beautiful, great find! I would be very interested in the pdf booklet if you could make that available.
- on February 28, 2013 at 3:02 pm | Reply John Krygier
  
  Will email you a PDF of all the original pages. John K.
on February 28, 2013 at 6:15 pm | Reply Vanessa Schrapps

Thank you so much for the fast reply and the pdf.
on March 25, 2013 at 12:59 pm | Reply Tom

These are so elegant. I’m astonished at their beauty. I’m not so keen on the ‘p’ parkland, but the rest are to die for.