The newly-discovered Kolkata maps, created over a seven-year period, plot buildings, trees, lakes and even dustbins Almost a hundred years before satellite-based mapping made information available to people at their fingertips, a municipal survey done in Kolkata by British surveyors documented not only streets, houses, landmarks and water bodies but also trees, telegraph and telephone … Continue reading Newly-discovered maps from 1887 tell Kolkata’s municipal story