Ten city maps from history – in pictures
From London’s cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, we bring you the work of the earliest data gurus, who charted not just geographical details but trends and tragedies in some of the world’s cities
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/jan/31/city-maps-ten-history-in-pictures#/?picture=428505646&index=1
e.g. 1581: Christian medieval map with Jerusalem as the centre of the world, by Heinrich Bunting
or 1869: Paris electoral map by Leon Montigny, “application de la géométrie à la statistique”