Your own personalized 19th / 21st century map of Jakarta

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Your own personalized 19th / 21st century map of Jakarta - Owning Map

, the youngest, followed by the inevitable flooding Jakarta traffic grid lock has us longingly look back at a time when Jakarta was really a large village and the way to the office, was not something to fear. We must go back for such a luxury in the 1970s, but also urban Jakarta had spread Cilandak. We need to see another century and a half to 1800 decline, a rural Jakarta. At the end of the 18th century, the southern boundary of the old city of Batavia was spread with residential areas around the present Glodok south to Rijswijk (today) Monas and three kilometers west. What does today's Jakarta by rice fields consisted, plantations, forests, scrubland and villages roll, in a landscape of plains and small hills.

, the scene was that the British Army soldiers met in 1811, when the British Expeditionary Force Java penetrated to eliminate influence from the eastern seas as part of a plan, French. The army was ferried taken ashore in Cillincing by the British Navy and the way the Dutch defense was to engage in a map of the area of ​​Cillincing in the east to the west and Tangerang Tanjung Barat in southern contain routes. This card, engraved by Edward Gullan from sketches and survey data provided by Major William Thorn, a senior British commander, was in Thorn "Memoir of conquest of Java 'published in 1815. The map showing the roads, railways, rivers and village layout at the time of the invasion near the location of rice fields, meadows, hills and the built-up areas of the capital, Batavia.

in the street layout See, in particular prompted Hans Rooseboom, a long-term resident of Jakarta and antique map collector to speculate whether it would be possible to superimpose the modern road network from Jakarta to this early 19th century map and see by where the modern centers of commerce, as the SCBD and housing are areas such as Kemang and Pondok Indah in relation to a 1811 base card. with modern digital mapping techniques, the 1811 map was scanned first then stretched and adjusted digitally to fit a modern map of Jakarta. Some of the major roads like Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta Jorr and Inner City Ring Road were modern landmark on the old map superimposed together as Blok M, Monas and Pondok Indah Mall to create a unique 19th and 21st century map of Jakarta. By providing the geographic coordinates of your office, home, favorite pub or restaurant, it is now possible to have shown your own 19/21 century map of Jakarta with these addresses on the printed card in the form of your choice. The example shown illustrates the location of rare maps and antiques gallery with the logo of the gallery.

The high resolution scanning technology is used, means that the cards in a variety of paper sizes and scales can be printed from A3 to poster size (A0). The prices are given with and without referenced location.

Please contact Bartele gallery at 021 719 0087 for order requests.

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