Owning Your Own Personalized 19th/21st Century Map of Jakarta
The recent flooding followed by the inevitable Jakarta traffic grid-lock must make us look back wistfully to a time when Jakarta definitely was a big village along with the commute to the office was not something to be dreaded. We need to go back to the 1970s for such luxury, nevertheless even then urban Jakarta had spread to Cilandak. We need to go back another century along that has a half to 1800 to see a more rural Jakarta. At the end of the 18th century, the southern boundary of the old city of Batavia was located around present-day Glodok with residential areas spreading south to Ryswick (present-day) Monas along with three kilometres west. What constituted modern-day Jakarta consisted of rice fields, plantations, forests, shrub land along with villages, set in a landscape of rolling plains along with tiny hills.
This kind of was the scene of which the soldiers of the British army encountered in 1811 when the British Expeditionary force invaded Java as part of a plan to eliminate French influence by the Eastern Seas. The army was ferried ashore at Cillincing by the British navy along with the route taken to engage the Dutch defenders was included in a map of the area stretching by Cillincing within the east to Tangerang within the West along with Tanjung Barat within the South. This kind of map, engraved by Edward Gullan by sketches along with survey data provided by Major William Thorn, one of the senior British commanders, was published in Thorn’s ‘Memoir of the Conquest of Java’ in 1815. The map shows the roads, tracks, rivers along with village format at the time of the invasion in addition to the location of rice fields, grasslands, hills along with the built-up areas of the capital city, Batavia.
Looking at the road format, in particular, prompted Hans Rooseboom, a long-term resident of Jakarta along with antique map collector, to speculate whether the idea could be possible to superimpose the modern road network of Jakarta on This kind of early 19th century map, along with thereby see where the modern centres of commerce like the SCBD along with residential areas such as Kemang along with Pondok Indah are in relation to an 1811 base map. Using modern digital mapping techniques, the 1811 map was first scanned then stretched along with adjusted digitally to fit a modern map of Jakarta. Some of the major roads, such as Jalan Sudirman, JORR along with the Jakarta Inner City Ring Road were superimposed on the old map together with modern landmarks such as Blok M, Monas along with Pondok Indah Mall creating a unique 19th along with 21st century map of Jakarta. By providing the geographical coordinates of your office, home, favourite pub or restaurant, the idea can be currently possible to have your own 19/21 century map of Jakarta with these specified locations shown on the printed map within the form of your choice. The example shown illustrates the position of the Rare Maps along with Antiques Gallery with the gallery’s logo.
The high resolution scanning technology used means of which the maps can be printed at many sizes of paper along with scales by A3 to poster size (A0). Prices are given with along with without a referenced location.
Please contact Bartele Gallery on 021 719 0087 for order requests.
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Owning Your Own Personalized 19th/21st Century Map of Jakarta
Owning Your Own Personalized 19th/21st Century Map of Jakarta