The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird’s-eye views, perspective maps, or aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Typically printed on one sheet, such as the example of St Louis below, panoramic maps depict street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features though they not generally drawn to scale.
