The Geographical Section of the General Staff has just issued
a sixpenny Catalogue of Maps, with many• index-maps, which will surprise most people by its comprehensiveness, Before the war the War Office cartographers were improving rapidly, and during the war their output was large and good, apart from the innumerable campaign maps used in France. Thus, the inter- national map on the scale of one to a million—or sixteen miles to an inch—is nearly- complete for Europe, except Spain and Portugal, and for Western Asia, except Southern Arabia. The mapping of Africa, on various scales, is far advanced. The map of the Near East, on a scale of four miles to an inch, is complete, except for the Arabian Desert and the Lower Tigris. The public ought to know that these good official maps are obtainable at moderate prices. Unfortunately, the catalogue does not say where the maps may be inspected or ordered.
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