For greater technical detail of mapmaking at about the same time, though of a somewhat different subject, there's Richard Furno's "The Race to Map the Moon", in two parts, covering the 1963--1969 effort to fully map the Earth's natural satellite, half of it with imagery only just obtained for the first time in the years and months immediately preceding publication.
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For greater technical detail of mapmaking at about the same time, though of a somewhat different subject, there's Richard Furno's "The Race to Map the Moon", in two parts, covering the 1963--1969 effort to fully map the Earth's natural satellite, half of it with imagery only just obtained for the first time in the years and months immediately preceding publication.
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1481
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1588
And the result, or at least an archived copy, as NatGeo's moon has gone 404: https://web.archive.org/web/20061125134203/http://www.ngmapc...
For an earlier map (near-side only), see:
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/sci...