Four centuries of mapping Aberdeen: from Gordon to Google

Chris Fleet, Senior Map Curator, National Library of Scotland

“Gough map”, ca. 1360

Forlani, ca. 1561

Gordon, 1661

Gordon, 1661

Gordon, 1661

Slezer, 1693

Roy, 1747-52

Board of Ordnance,

1746

Paterson, 1746

Milne, 1789

Harding, 1804

Smith, 1810

Smith, 1810

Telford, 1828

Wood, 1828

Wood, 1828

Ordnance Survey, 1867

Ordnance Survey, 1867

Ordnance Survey, 1866-7

Ordnance Survey, 1866-7

Ordnance Survey, 1866-7

Beattie & Son, 1878

Gibb, 1888

Ordnance Survey, 1899

Bartholomew, 1912

Aberdeen & District Joint Town Planning Scheme, 1933

Bartholomew, 1934

Ordnance Survey, 1944

Ordnance Survey, 1944

Google, 2012