Best Surveyor
Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) was a prominent American surveyor responsible for several major boundary and territorial surveys in the early United States. He completed the survey of the federal capital territory and finalized Pierre Charles L'Enfant's street plan for Washington, D.C., placing the boun...
John Rocque (1705–1762) was a surveyor and cartographer of French descent who worked in England. He is best known for his 1746 large-scale map of London, which provided highly detailed representations of the city's streets, individual buildings, and surrounding fields. Rocque also produced detailed...
Joel Gascoyne was a 17th-century English cartographer who pioneered the mapping of Cornwall's coastline, publishing the first detailed local coastal chart in 1699.
