In Great Britain, they have a national mapping agency known as The Ordnance Survey (OS) which provides highly-detailed geographic maps for individuals as well as for military purposes. In the early 1960s, the Ordnance Survey undertook to re-map Great Britain and it was a massive project.
This 1961 British Pathe newsreel shows just how large a project it was and how many people were involved in the creation of these new maps... literally thousands of skilled artists and technicians! Mapping the land is difficult enough but it is even more impressive to watch the maps being made, from the super tiny ink work that needed to be done to the huge printing plates that had to be created.
These road maps were then purchased by drivers and hikers who probably had no idea how many people were behind the making of the map that they held in their hands.
Ready to watch Map Making? Simply click on the link below:
Map Making (1961) - 3:36 sec
Similar British Pathé newsreels:
Map Making (1942) - 1:50 sec
Plastic Maps (1947) - 1:23 sec
Map Survey (1965) - 2:20 sec
Ordnance Survey Mapmakers (1965) - 1:00 sec
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