The Society of Arts, recognising the inadequate state of mapping in Britain, introduced an award in 1759 to encourage the accurate survey and production of county maps at a ‘large’ scale of one inch to one mile (1:63,360) by private individuals. From 1761 to 1809, thirteen awards were made. By 1800 nearly all of England and Lowland Scotland and a third of Wales were mapped by the private enterprise of surveyors, cartographers and publishers before the publication in 1801 of the first Ordnance Survey map at an inch to the mile, of Kent. The role of the Society of Arts awards scheme, in the general rush to produce accurate large scale maps of England and Wales is appraised. Manuscript field maps by William Smith and Adam Sedgwick on SA prize-winning county one inch scale maps for their geological work and a completed example of one inch geological mapping by Arthur Aikin are examined. No geological mapping was published on one-inch county maps, but smaller scale reductions were. Less than a third of publish...

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艺术地图奖的社会与地质制图的鼓励

艺术协会认识到英国的制图状况不佳，于1759年设立了一项奖项，以鼓励私人个人以1英寸至1英里（1：63,360）的“大”比例准确地调查和制作县地图。从1761年到1809年，共颁发了13个奖项。到1800年，在测量师，制图师和出版商的私人企业中，几乎英格兰和苏格兰低地的所有地区以及威尔士的三分之一都在1801年出版了肯特一英里外的第一张军械测量图之前。评估了艺术协会奖励计划在急于制作准确的英格兰和威尔士大型地图方面的作用。威廉·史密斯（William Smith）和亚当·塞奇威克（Adam Sedgwick）在他们屡获殊荣的SA县的地质工作中绘制了手稿野外地图，并绘制了完整的实例，其中包括Arthur Aikin绘制的一英寸地质图的实例。在1英寸的县地图上没有发布地质图，但是缩小的比例较小。不到发布的三分之一...