In 1639, Beauplan created the first "descriptive"
map of Ukraine. He created the
General Map of Ukraine in 1648 that had detailed border information. By 1654 he was working in
Gdańsk (Danzig). He created a map with a scale of 1:452,000 and an additional map scaled at 1:1,800,000. Both maps were engraved by
Willem Hondius. These maps would go on to be published in
Rouen, France and reproduced by Benjamin Cordt. Beauplan published the
Special Map of Ukraine in the 1650s, and another map of the
Dnieper River in 1662. ==
Description of Ukraine ==