The Survey of Palestine was the government department responsible for the
survey and mapping of Palestine during the period of British
Mandatory Palestine. The survey department was established in 1920 in
Jaffa, and moved to the outskirts of
Tel Aviv in 1931. It established the
Palestine grid. In early 1948, the British mandate appointed a temporary director general of the Survey Department for the impending Jewish state; this became the
Survey of Israel. The maps produced by the survey have been widely used in "Palestinian refugee cartography" by scholars documenting the
1948 Palestinian exodus, notably in
Salman Abu Sitta's Atlas of Palestine and
Walid Khalidi's All That Remains. This composite map of the
region of Palestine was assembled from twenty-four separate 1:100,000 sheets published by the Survey for Palestine and its successor, the Survey of Israel, between 1942 and 1958.Map credit:
Survey of Palestine and the
Survey of Israel; assembled by
DutchTreat