Map
A map is a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, and themes.
History mapEdit
related properties: History of cartography
Early civilisationEdit
Çatalhöyük Map, c. 6000 BC
Clay tablet plan of Nippur, c. 1400 BC
Babylonian Map of the World
(6. century BCE)Eratosthenes' map of the world (reconstruction), c. 194 BC
Pomponius Mela, 43 AD
Ptolemy's world map
(150)Fragment of the Severan Map of Rome, showing the Theatre of Pompey, 203- 211 .
Peutinger Map, 4th or 5th century
Middle AgesEdit
World Map by Cosmas Indicopleustes, 6th c.
Jerusalem on the Madaba Map, 6th century
Map by Estakhri, 9th c.
World map of Beatus of Liébana, 1050 AD
T and O map, 1055-1074
T and O style mappa mundi by Isidore of Seville, 12th c.
Tabula Rogeriana, 1154
Ebstorf Map, 13th c.
Carta Pisana, 1275-1300
World Map by Opicinus de Canistris, 1296-1300.
World Map by Opicinus de Canistris, 1296-1300.
Hereford Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
Map of Maximus Planudes, early-14th c.
Portolan chart, 14th c.
Corbitis Atlas, late 14th c.
Catalan Atlas, 1375
Da Ming Hun Yi Tu. 1389
RenaissanceEdit
De Virga world map, 1411-1415
Pizzigano map, 1424
Bianco world map, 1437
Genoese map, 1452
Fra Mauro map, 1460
Nuremberg Chronicle in Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500)
Cantino planisphere, 1502
Caverio map, 1505
Piri Reis map, 1513
Carta marina, c. 1530
Bünting Clover Leaf Map, 1581
Late modern periodEdit
16th century
Mercator 1569 world map, 1569
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius, 1570
Antwerp in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572
17th century
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, 1602-04
18th century
First known isochrone map, 1881
Type of mapEdit
GeographyEdit
Thematic mapEdit
related properties: Thematic map
Pictorial mapEdit
related properties: Pictorial map
Map of Paris
1618
Star chartEdit
related properties: Star chart
Related propertiesEdit
Maps by themeEdit
Maps by theme, the more general typesEdit
Maps by theme, more specific typesEdit
Map principlesEdit
Map usageEdit
21st century