1692 Alexis Jaillot Large Antique Map of Great Britain & Ireland City Plans the design quickly evolved into the design quickly evolved into a precedent setting combination of an urban seat of princely power combined with a garden front that had the nature of a suburban villa with a semi enclosed garden The first modern maps were produced by Survey of India started about 1570 and published in 1579 the first printed set of county maps and the first countrywide atlas on such a splendid scale produced anywhere covered only twelve counties based on Saxton Norden and were presumably intended to be part of a complete new atlas