The Imperial Atlas of China

One major goal in reviving the Huidian Guan (Statutes Commission) in the Qing Guangxu Period was to standardise cartography across all provinces, based on the longitude and latitude system. It was not until 1899 that the maps were completed and compiled in the Daqing Huidian (Collected Statutes of the Great Qing). One such map is the Daqing Huangyu Quantu (The Imperial Atlas of China), using a conical projection and with Beijing set as the prime meridian. This can be said to be the first complete map of China in the mathematical cartographic tradition made without foreign aid.