List of map series

Philipp Apian, 1568

Isaac Jakob von Petri, 1762

The list of map series contains current and historical map series . The original meaning of map series lay largely in military use, land registry administration and tax collection. Topographic maps are one of the most important maps . Today historical maps are used to document urban development, to help with archaeological investigations, as a planning basis for renaturation and to illustrate the development of cartography.

Atlases such as Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius (1570), Atlas Maior by Joan Blaeu (1635) and later works are not listed.

Germany

Historical maps

The maps were mostly the result of elaborate land surveys that lasted several years and that were often initiated directly by the heads of the respective territories before the formation of modern states.

In chronological order:

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Land survey of the offices of Zweibrücken and Kirkel		1564	16	Tilemann Stella	Parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland	oriented to the northeast.
Bavarian country tables	1:  144,000	1566		Philipp Apian	Bavaria
First Saxon state survey	1:  53.333	1586-1633	17th	Matthias Oeder , Balthasar Zimmermann	Saxony
Lubin map	1:  240,000	1618	12	Eilhard Lubin , cartographer Nikolaus Geilkerken , engraver	Duchy of Pomerania
Swedish map of Western Pomerania		1692-1709			Western Pomerania
Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel	1:  66,000	1705-1710		Johann Georg Schleenstein	Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
New Chursächsische Post-Charte		1713-1718		Adam Friedrich Zürner	Saxony	Reduction of the national survey by Zürner
Theatrum Belli Rhenani		1713-1715	20th	Cyriak stupid	Southwest Germany
Accurate situation card from a part of the Electorate of Saxony	1:  32,000	1762	12	Jakob von Petri , Johann David Schleuen	Parts of Saxony near Dresden
Accurate Situations and Cabinets Card from another part of the Electorate of Saxony	1:  32,000	around 1762	12	Jakob von Petri , Johann David Schleuen	Parts of Saxony east of Dresden
Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme	1:  21.333	1764-1786	175		Hanover
Schmettausches map series		1767-1787			Prussia east of the Weser and Mecklenburg	Land recording
Rodensche land recording		1772-1773		Johann Rembert Rode	West Prussia	Land recording
Miles sheets from Saxony		1780-1806		Friedrich Ludwig Aster	Saxony
Niemeyer's card	1:  6.640	1787-1793	120	Johann Friedrich Conrad Niemeyer	eastern Ruhr area.	Purpose u. a. the capture of mining.
Topographical military map of the Duchy of Holstein	1:  26.293	1789-1796	68	Gustav Adolf von Varendorf	Duchy of Holstein
Map of Northwest Germany	1:  86,400	1797-1813	22nd	Karl Ludwig from Le Coq	Northwest Germany
Charter of Swabia	1:  86,400	1798-1828	62	Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger	Southwest Germany	private land recording
Map of East Prussia together with Prussian Litthauen and West Prussia and the network district		1796-1802		Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter	East Prussia , Prussian Lithuania , West Prussia , Netzedistrikt	Land recording of East and West Prussia
Schmitt's Map of Southwest Germany	1:  57,600	1797-1798	198	Heinrich von Schmitt	Salzburg , Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , Wuerttemberg , Baden , Hesse-Nassau	Purely military card (kept under lock and key), vest
Topographical survey of the Rhineland		1801-1828		Jean Joseph Tranchot , Karl von Müffling called White	Rhineland	Land recording initially on French and then Prussian orders.
Special geographic atlas of Germany and neighboring countries on a scale of 1:  200,000		1806-1837		Daniel Gottlob Reymann		later: Reymann's map, until 1906
Topographical-military chart of Germany		1807-1814		Friedrich Wilhelm dispute
Bavarian premiere	1:  5,000 1:  2,500 1:  1,250	1808-1864			Bavaria
Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Bavaria	1: 50,000	1812-1867	112	Topographical Bureau (Bavaria)	Bavaria
Prussian General Staff Card	1:  86,400	1816-1847
Württemberg land map	1:  2,500	1818-1840	15,572	Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger	Kingdom of Württemberg	Result of the Württemberg state survey
Topographic atlas	1:  50,000	1826-1851	55		Kingdom of Württemberg	Reduction of the land map.
Royal Hanover regional survey	1:  21.333	1821-1861			Hanover	Based on the triangulation by Carl Friedrich Gauß .
Map of the Grand Duchy of Hesse	1:  50,000	1823-1850	32		Grand Duchy of Hesse
Chart of the Kingdom of Saxony and the adjoining Land departments	1:  120,000	1829-1836	28	Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann	Saxony
Prussian first recording	1:  25,000	1830-1865				Land recording.
Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig	1:  100,000	1832-1848			Hanover and Braunschweig
Topographic map of the province of Westphalia and the Rhine province	1:  80,000	1837-1855	72		Westphalia Province , Rhineland
French map of the Rhineland 1:  100,000	1:  100,000	1840			Rhineland	Reduction of the map of Tranchot.
Royal Saxon triangulation		1862-1890		August Nagel	Saxony
Map of the German Empire (General Staff Map)	1:  100,000	1863-1909			German Empire
Prussian new admission	1:  25,000	1877-1915			Kingdom of Prussia
Special map of Germany and neighboring countries	1:  850,000	1883	11	Ludwig Ravenstein	German Empire
Outline map of Central Europe, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe	1:  300,000	1893-1945
Map of the German Empire after Carl Vogel	1:  500,000	1893	27	Carl Vogel	German Empire
Topographic overview map of the German Empire	1:  200,000	1899–?	469		German Empire
Topographic map	1:  10,000 to 1:  500,000	1966-1990			German Democratic Republic
Geographical land survey 1:  200,000	1:  200,000	1952-1994	66	Various authors, publisher of the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning , some self-published.	Federal Republic of Germany	Subject of natural spaces . Based on the topographic overview map of the German Empire 1:  200,000 .
Oldenburg Vogteikarte	1: 20,000	1781-1799	47	Caspar Wessel , Christian Georg von Oeder , Christian Römer	Duchy of Oldenburg

Current map series

The federal states, and there the respective state surveying office , are responsible for producing and updating the official topographic maps and maps up to and including 1:  100,000 . The small-scale maps are processed by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy .

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Official basic map of NRW	1:  2,500 1:  5,000 1:  10,000				North Rhine-Westphalia	is one of the topographic maps.
German base map 1: 5,000 (DGK5)	1:  5,000					not in all countries
Topographic map 1: 10,000 (TK10)	1:  10,000					only in the eastern federal states
Digital topographic map (DTK10)	1:  10,000	1990 – today		Land surveying offices , Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy	Federal Republic of Germany	See Official Topographic-Cartographic Information System (ATKIS)
Topographic map 1: 25,000 (TK25)	1:  25,000
Topographic map 1: 50,000 (TK50)	1:  50,000
Topographic map 1: 100,000 (TK100)	1:  100,000
Topographic overview map 1: 200,000 (TÜK200)	1:  200,000			Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy	Federal Republic of Germany	expiring
Topographic map 1: 250,000 (TK250)	1:  250,000					under construction
Overview map 1: 500,000 (ÜK500)	1:  500,000					expiring
Topographic map 1: 500,000 (TK500)	1:  500,000			Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy	Federal Republic of Germany	under construction
Topographic map 1: 1 million (TK1000)	1:  1,000,000			Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy	Federal Republic of Germany	under construction

See also : Topographic map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 25,000  and Topographic map of the Saarland 1: 25,000

Austria

Historical maps

A total of four Austro-Hungarian regional recordings (1764–1987) took place.

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Carte des environs de Schönbrun et ceux de Laxemburg	1:  10,800	1755	6th	Jean-Baptiste Brequin de Demenge	Area between Schönbrunn Palace and Laxenburg in the southwest and south of Vienna.	Predecessor of the four regional recordings.
Josephine land survey	1:  28,000	1764-1787	4,096			Josephine land survey
Ferraris card	1:  11.520	1771-1777	275	Joseph Johann of Ferraris	Austrian Netherlands	On behalf of Franz II.
Ferraris card	1:  86,400	1777-1778	25th	Joseph Johann of Ferraris	Austrian Netherlands	Version for trade.
Schmitt's Map of Southwest Germany	1:  57,600	1797	198	Heinrich von Schmitt	Among others Salzburg, Bavaria, the Palatinate, Württemberg, Baden and Hessen-Nassau.
Franziszeische Landesaufnahme		1806-1869				Franziszeische Landesaufnahme
Franziszeischer Cadastre	1:  2.880	1817-1861	53,212			Result of the Franziszeische cadastral survey. Partly also scales 1:  1,440, 1:  720, 1:  5,760.
Franzisco-Josephinische Landaufnahme		1869-1887				Franzisco-Josephinische Landaufnahme
Fourth land recording		1896-1987				Fourth land recording

Current map series

The official Austrian maps are produced and continuously updated by the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying (BEV) in Vienna. The maps are produced with route markings by alpine clubs (including numbering) and road imprints (editions only with route markings or only with road imprints are no longer available) and are also available digitally, also at www.austrianmap.at. The BEV catalog contains the details. Map 1: 50,000-UTM is the basic map series. By the end of 2009, this map series was converted from the system of the old Austrian land survey (map sheets of the 3rd land survey ) to the representation according to the " Universal Transversal Mercator System" UTM. The 12 '× 20' sheet cut was also introduced. The maps are equipped with a UTM network, the federal reporting network BMN (modified Gauß-Krüger network ) is shown in the map frame. The BEV also maintains the Austrian cadastre . Because of this and the fact that the land register is public in Austria, it is possible to offer combinations of aerial photos (orthophotos) and cadastral data: the cadastral folder with orthophoto (b / w / color), property register and owner register on a scale of 1: 500 to 1: 5,000 .

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Austrian map 1: 25 000 (ÖK 25)	1:  25,000
Austrian map 1: 50 000 (ÖK 50)	1:  50,000
Austrian map 1: 200 000 (ÖK 200)	1:  200,000					Maps of the individual federal states.
Austrian map 1: 500 000 (ÖK 500)	1:  500,000					Map of the entire federal territory.

Switzerland

Historical maps

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Ban plans Fricktal		1772-1783	23		Fricktal	Areas that used to belong to the KuK monarchy.
Topographic map of Switzerland ( Dufour map )	1:  100,000	1845-1865	25th	Guillaume Henri Dufour	Switzerland
Topographic Atlas of Switzerland ( Siegfried Map )	1:  25,000 1:  50,000	1870-1922		Hermann Siegfried , lithograph by a. a. Rudolf Leuzinger	Switzerland
German Army Map Switzerland	1:  25,000	1938-1939			Switzerland	On behalf of the German Wehrmacht.

Current map series

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
National map of Switzerland	1:  25,000 to 1:  1,000,000			Federal Office for Topography	Switzerland

Belgium

Historical maps

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Ferraris card	1:  11.520	1771-1777	275	Joseph Johann of Ferraris	Austrian Netherlands	On behalf of Franz II.
Ferraris card	1:  86,400	1777-1778	25th	Joseph Johann of Ferraris	Austrian Netherlands	Version for trade.

France

Historical maps

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Carte de Cassini	1:  870,000	1746-1747	18th	César François Cassini de Thury	France
Carte de Cassini	1:  86,400	1756-1789		César François Cassini de Thury	France	Recordings on a scale of 1:  14,000 and 1:  28,400
Map of the Rhineland		1801-1814		Jean Joseph Tranchot	Rhineland
Atlas National Illustré		1847

Italy

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Carta d'Italia	1:  25,000 and 1:  50,000

Russia

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Soviet General Staff Map

United Kingdom

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Ordnance Survey of England and Wales	1:  253.440	circa 1900		Ordnance Survey	England , Wales

United States

In the United States there are three series of official topographical maps.

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
Topographic map 1: 24,000	1:  24,000			United States Geological Survey	United States of America including Puerto Rico .	The approximately 54,000 map sheets in this series generally extend over 7.5 minutes of length and width of each, length measurements are given in miles and height measurements in feet. In Alaska, the scale 1: 25,000 is sometimes used differently. Maps at this scale are limited to the areas around Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Prudhoe Bay in this state. Maps of Puerto Rico are 1: 20,000 scale. The outer areas in the central Pacific are shown on maps at a scale between 1: 10,000 and 1: 50,000. This series of maps is published by the United States Geological Survey .
Topographic map 1: 100,000	1:  100,000			Bureau of Land Management	United States of America	A map generally spans 30 minutes of latitude and 60 minutes of longitude and is based on a 1: 24,000 map, but distances and heights are given in the metric system. This series of maps is issued by the Bureau of Land Management .
Topographic map 1: 250,000	1:  250,000			United States Geological Survey	United States of America	It serves as a base map for thematic maps of geology and aviation. This series of maps usually shows one degree of latitude and two degrees of longitude on one sheet, with deviations on the coasts and in Hawaii . In Alaska, the 153 map sheets in this series cover between one and three degrees of longitude. In this series, distances and heights are based on the imperial system , with around eight percent of the 489 map sheets of the contiguous states in this series already being converted to metric data. This map series was previously created by the US Army and is now under the responsibility of the United States Geological Survey.

International map series

designation	scale	Appearance	leaf	Cartographer or publisher	region	Remarks
International world map	1:  1,000,000	1913 – today		United Nations (since 1953)
World map 1: 2,500,000	1:  2,500,000	1956-1975
Operational Navigation Chart	1:  1,000,000

See also

• Rights to geospatial information

literature

• Jürgen Bollmann, Wolf Günther Koch (Ed.): Lexicon of cartography and geomatics. Volume 2. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8274-1056-8 .
• Ingrid Kretschmer, et al. (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of cartography. From the beginning to the First World War. Deuticke, Vienna 1986. ( Cartography and its peripheral areas. Volume C). ISBN 3-7005-4562-2 .

Web links

Germany

Land survey offices

• Geodata Bavaria: Historical maps and views.
• Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation: Historical topographic maps.
• Land surveying office of Lower Saxony: Leisure and historical maps.
• State survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia: Historical maps.
• Land survey office Rhineland-Palatinate: Historical maps.
• State Office for Cadastre, Surveying and Mapping Saarland: Historical Maps.
• Staatsbetrieb Geobasisinformation und Vermessung Sachsen (GeoSN): Historical maps.

Libraries and Archives

• Württembergische Landesbibliothek: collections of maps and graphics
• Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
• Berlin State Library
• Greifswald University
• University of Hamburg

Austria

• Catalog of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying
• Austrian map on the Internet
• Document on the UTM conversion (PDF file; 940 kB)
• Cadastral map and orthophoto