The map I chose is a map depicting France around 1916 during World War I. It shows the front lines as of that time, and shows all of the major roads leading to the various major cities of that time.
First the good parts about this map relating to text. The placement for the most part is excellent because the cartographer for the map placed the text in the appropriate places. Also the text size itself is good in that the main cities are in bold, while the lesser cities are in a smaller font. Then the rivers and other features that are important, but not so much as the roads and cites are in a smaller font than that. What really grabbed me about this map was how well laid out the cities were in the map itself, the names stood out as I was browsing through images. Although the digital copy of the map is in high resolution a person can still see the names of cities and places well. The legibility is what really caught my attention because the words can be seen well on both the light and dark areas. If some of the words are hard to read in the dark areas, though, it is due to the image quality from the site and not the map itself.
It appears to me that someone back in 1916 took their time to construct this map and make it presentable in color and not black and white. The black and white copy of this map does not look as good, but the entire text placement is the same and is still legible. Also the way they make some of hte names of the countries sucha as Holland and France itself appear bent or wavy. This rarely happens now, but is a nice way to add an artistic touch to the map itself that makes it stand out from the other maps in its area.
Over all I believe this is a good map when it somes to Typography. The text is placed i nthe correct spots, it is legible and the cartographer has added an artistic touch by making some of the text bent or wavy. All in all the map is a good representation of what one should look like when relating to Typography.