ABSTRACT
The ‘good topographic map’ envisaged by Salmon was a cartographic mirror image of the face of the land which represented the relief, the ground cover, and all the details of the landscape in a way that emphasised the special character of the country. The method of presentation, the technical conception, the data, and the level of detail to be aimed at in a topo graphic map depended on the complexity of the landscape and the scale of the map. When Salmon studied the landscape of Palestine he understood that its typical features were not evenly distributed throughout the country. In contrast with regions of close detail were others that were worthy of mapping but were poor in landscape features. When he arrived in the country in 1933, Salmon believed that the most appropriate scale for topographic maps was 1:50,000, but for practical reasons decided that the topographic map of Palestine would be to a scale of 1:100,000. Salmon tended to disregard the 1:20,000-scale map that was being readied for publication, or thought it irrelevant to topographic mapping. Thus, because of the difference in the cartographic approaches of Salmon and Ley, each of these two cartographic products must be discussed separately. The first of Salmon’s topographic maps-that of Jerusalem-appeared in 1934. It was to be the eighth sheet in the 1:100,000-scale series. It was the first map of the Mandate period that from the outset had been planned, drawn up, and published as a topographic map.
