Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — LARGEST MAP IN THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

LARGEST MAP IN THE WORLD

It Is Intended to Show Every Building In London —Is 580 Feet . Square. London. —If all goes well and there are no serious delays, three or four years hence the London county council will have completed what it is believed will be the most wonderful map In the whole world. Seventeen years have already been consumed in Its preparation and $85,000 has been expended on research and labor connected with it. A further expenditure of

about $25,000 is looked forward to with equanimity by the authorities. . The great map will really constitute a twentieth-century London edition of England’s famous Doomsday Book. For It will show practically every building in the 116 square [miles that go to make up- greater London, setting forth, as far as possible, the most important owners. It has often been said that London was owned by a few great landlords, such as the Duke of Westminster, Lord Howard de Walden, Lord Cadogan, the Duke of Bedford and the Duties Norfolk. That is, of course, true In a general way, bub this map, shows that there are no fewer than 36,600 private owners who each possess '-enough property to make a notable showing on its face. The map will not be Issued to the public! but Is really being prepared for the use of the county council-itself. It

is being drawn to the scale of five square feet to the square mile, so that the completed map, which, of course, wilt be made In sections, will measure 580 feet by 580 feet, or l-82d of a square mile in area.