ABSTRACT
The benefits of producing maps to assist the interpretation of geographically located information are well known. Since at least the early nineteenth century (Robinson, 1982), increasingly sophisticated experiments in thematic mapping contributed to an improved understanding of how people and events are geographically distributed, and how social processes act themselves out in time and space. Within the emerging tradition of social mapping in the Victorian period, Charles Booth's well-known maps of poverty and social condition in London have secured a pre-eminent position (Hyde, 1975).
