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I would like to add one of my finds (if it's already mentioned in the original post, sorry for the double) - the National Atlas of Japan (1977) [1]. Take a loo

I would like to add one of my finds (if it's already mentioned in the original post, sorry for the double) - the National Atlas of Japan (1977) [1]. Take a look at the railway traffic statistics [2]. The visualization there must have been painstaking to make. [1] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/atlas-e-etsuran.html https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/atlas-e-etsuran.html [2] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_49.pdf https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_49.pdf edit: The earthquake epicenter visualization is also worth mentioning: [3] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_11.pdf https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_11.pdf

parsecs 6y ago
Those are some beautiful visualizations. How did they do it in 1977, considering modern software like Tableau don't exist? The amount of expertise that goes into this must've been substantial.
- nl 6y ago
  In that timeframe, most visualisation was hand-drawn (especially on maps which were all hand drawn).
paganel 6y ago
On the subject of great-looking maps I highly recommend the second Austro-Hungarian Military Survey [1] from the 1860s-1870s, some of the details in those maps are truly exceptional (one of my personal projects consists in mapping the forested area of Romania's territory from nowadays using those maps). A little less accurate but more beautiful is the first Hapsburg Military Survey, from the late 1700s [2], when and if I'll ever get a bigger house I'll definitely hang some prints of those maps on the walls. [1] https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/?layers=158%2C164&bbox=2345318.9810758447%2C5734897.1292401%2C2381722.11579666%2C5746362.683482877 https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/?laye... [2] https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=163%2C165&bbox=2346583.107546838%2C5735766.92731086%2C2382986.2422676533%2C5747232.4815536365 https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layer...

parsecs 6y ago

Those are some beautiful visualizations. How did they do it in 1977, considering modern software like Tableau don't exist? The amount of expertise that goes into this must've been substantial.

nl 6y ago
In that timeframe, most visualisation was hand-drawn (especially on maps which were all hand drawn).

paganel 6y ago

On the subject of great-looking maps I highly recommend the second Austro-Hungarian Military Survey [1] from the 1860s-1870s, some of the details in those maps are truly exceptional (one of my personal projects consists in mapping the forested area of Romania's territory from nowadays using those maps). A little less accurate but more beautiful is the first Hapsburg Military Survey, from the late 1700s [2], when and if I'll ever get a bigger house I'll definitely hang some prints of those maps on the walls. [1] https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/?layers=158%2C164&bbox=2345318.9810758447%2C5734897.1292401%2C2381722.11579666%2C5746362.683482877 https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/?laye... [2] https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=163%2C165&bbox=2346583.107546838%2C5735766.92731086%2C2382986.2422676533%2C5747232.4815536365 https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layer...