Mike Shand; Eugene Silayo · 1996
The source treats the 1956 Atlas of Tanganyika as the third updated edition of the national atlas, published by the Survey Division, Department of Lands and Surveys, Dar es Salaam, and renamed from the earlier Tanganyika Territory atlas; it notes the change from a red colonial binding to a green independent binding. It records the main revisions: most maps enlarged to 1:3,000,000, the three population maps combined and supplied as transparent overlays, the historical section removed, and five plates added for 27 in total, covering meteorological data, labour distribution and routes, water supplies, and extracts from large-scale maps of Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Dodoma and Morogoro. It also observes that the 1956 vegetation map's 27 categories required about seven printing inks and that the relief map used ten, while some line patterns are judged visually disturbing despite skilful area-fill design.
David N. Siriba; Daniel O. Nyangweso · 2022
The authors identify the 1956 Atlas of Tanganyika as an update of the earlier territorial atlas, issued under a new title. They state that its base maps, like those of the other national atlas editions discussed for Tanzania, were derived from 1:2,000,000 topographic mapping, then the largest scale covering the entire country on a single sheet.
