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 actually was a big village in addition to the commute to the office was not something to be dreaded. We need to go back to the 1970s for such luxury, yet even then urban Jakarta had spread to Cilandak. We need to go back another century in addition to 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 in addition to three kilometres west. What constituted modern-day Jakarta consisted of rice fields, plantations, forests, shrub land in addition to villages, set in a landscape of rolling plains in addition to smaller hills.
that will was the scene that will 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 via the Eastern Seas. The army was ferried ashore at Cillincing by the British navy in addition to the route taken to engage the Dutch defenders was included in a map of the area stretching via Cillincing within the east to Tangerang within the West in addition to Tanjung Barat within the South. that will map, engraved by Edward Gullan via sketches in addition to 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 in addition to village design at the time of the invasion in addition to the location of rice fields, grasslands, hills in addition to the built-up areas of the capital city, Batavia.
Looking at the road design, in particular, prompted Hans Rooseboom, a long-term resident of Jakarta in addition to antique map collector, to speculate whether the item might be possible to superimpose the modern road network of Jakarta on that will early 19th century map, in addition to thereby see where the modern centres of commerce like the SCBD in addition to residential areas such as Kemang in addition to Pondok Indah are in relation to an 1811 base map. Using modern digital mapping techniques, the 1811 map was first scanned then stretched in addition to adjusted digitally to fit a modern map of Jakarta. Some of the major roads, such as Jalan Sudirman, JORR in addition to the Jakarta Inner City Ring Road were superimposed on the old map together with modern landmarks such as Blok M, Monas in addition to Pondok Indah Mall creating a unique 19th in addition to 21st century map of Jakarta. By providing the geographical coordinates of your office, home, favourite pub or restaurant, the item is actually today 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 in addition to Antiques Gallery with the gallery’s logo.
The high resolution scanning technology used means that will the maps can be printed at several sizes of paper in addition to scales via A3 to poster size (A0). Prices are given with in addition to 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