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Map Symbols: Land Use | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

                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 [...]

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Map Symbols: Vegetation & Land Use | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Map symbols for vegetation and land use 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 plates with translation to English below: o = orchard a = kitchen garden b = arable land ub [...]

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Map Symbols: River Features | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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: from top to bottom: Fjords: Small and for General Traffic Wharf and [...]

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Map Symbols: Bridges / Rivers | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , on November 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Map symbols for bridges 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: Bridges: Iron Stone Wood Pontoon Raft Toll Bridges: Iron Stone Wood Floating [...]

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Map Symbols: Roads & Road Features | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , on October 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Map symbols for roads and road 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: Public Roads: 1) a, b – carriageway edge 2) carriageway: c – [...]

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Map Symbols: Water Crossings | Boats, Fords, Bridges

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Francois de Dainville, in his Le Language des Geographes (1964, p. 162), compiled map symbols for various water crossings from historical European maps (1543-1777). The symbols include boats (Bac, above), fords (Gué, below)… …and bridges (Pont, below). The entire set of symbols in one image:

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A Bit More on Map Pins

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Map History, tagged , , on December 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »

When I compiled a previous post entitled “A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage,” largely based on Willard C. Brinton’s Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (1914) I rather forgot that Brinton had another tome, published in 1939, entitled Graphic Presentation. Among the pages of this latter book can be found a few items worthy of [...]

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More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Cartogram, 1930: “A Distorted Map of the United States Showing Population of Each State and of Cities of 50,000 or More in 1930″ (Printers’ Ink Publishing Co., Inc., Chart by Walter P. Burns and Associates, Inc., New York City) A cartogram scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog [...]

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A Crooked Stick Straightened: Map Making as Juvenile Delinquent Reform

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Deep Map Thoughts, Map History, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From a slouching, unkempt, uncouth, shambling, horrid boy, he emerged into being a respectable, neat, tidy, order-loving, painstaking, and industrious young man. – Miss Winthrop, 1888 I had an ugly, unruly boy in my room, and be gave me more trouble than all the rest of the class. When I inherited him I felt as [...]

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A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Pin maps have not much been much used in the past, chiefly because a map pin which would give satisfactory service has not been available for common use. Until recently the map markers obtainable have been little more than old-fashioned carpet tacks having chisel-shaped points which cut the surface of any map into which they [...]

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