Ancient Chart - Any Cartographers here?

[JumbleDuck]

What people actually used were lists of directions, both at sea and ashore - at sea they were called Peripli (singular Periplus), or Itineraries on land.

I inherited from my father - a geographer and map maker - a very nice 1776 first edition of Taylor and Skinner's "Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland" which was effectively the first road atlas of Scotland. It's a series of strip maps, like Ogilby's of England, so it's a cross between an Itinerary and what we'd think of as a map now - beautifully detailed engravings, but only along and for a short distance to each side of the roads described.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I inherited from my father - a geographer and map maker - a very nice 1776 first edition of Taylor and Skinner's "Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland" which was effectively the first road atlas of Scotland. It's a series of strip maps, like Ogilby's of England, so it's a cross between an Itinerary and what we'd think of as a map now - beautifully detailed engravings, but only along and for a short distance to each side of the roads described.

Canal maps often take a similar form.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Canal maps often take a similar form.

I should have thought of that ... yes, just the same including the angled boundaries to show when some re-orientation is needed. Unfortunately by the time Taylor and Skinner had done their stuff Major Caulfeild (General Wade's successor) had also done his stuff and the map misses my house by two miles.