The London County Council has decided to postpone the issue to the general public of the new map of London until after the war. This will give prospective buyers an op-Portunity to save up for its purchase, A map that has cost £20,000 to produce, and which will have marked on it every house in the 116 square miles over which the London County Council has jurisdiction will be a luxury for the few to whom money is no object. Cartographers the assertion that this new the largest ever produced.
Pall Mall Gazette" says that as long ago as 1855 the Ordinance Survey began mapping every town in Great Britain with " population of over 4,000 on the generous scale of 126.72 inches to the mile—600 towns are so mapped—a scale that provides about half an inch for the delineation of an average house. Astronomers can also boast of a big mapping achievement in the great international map of the whole of the heavens, which took the cooperating observatories all over the world more than twenty years to complete. This map of the stars comprises some 20,000 separate sheets and costs £1,000 to produce
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