In sum, the map provides everything one needs to know about touring Ceylon during what were still relatively early days of the automotive era. The map was compiled by William Samuel Maddams (1877 - 1958), then Ceylon’s Assistant Superintendent of Surveys, an experienced cartographer who first learned surveying and draftsmanship while fighting in East Africa during World War I. He subsequently spent many years engaged by the Ceylon Survey Department in Columbo, where he drafted many of the era’s most important maps of the island. The present map is part of sequence of Motor Maps of Ceylon, issued by the Survey Department in regularly updated editions from 1918 to 1973.
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