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1675, John Ogilby issued his ''Britannia'' atlas, in the form of a strip map for each major route. One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown, and the pronunciations of their names. The roads were measured using a surveyor's wheel and plotted at one inch to the statute mile

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