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Canadian map publishers
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Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:27:33 -0500
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From: "Kenneth A. Mr. Grabach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:19:23 AM
Subject: Canadian map publishers




I have acquired some recently published city maps for some Canadian cities.  I am noticing an interesting thing here, not sure if it matters or what the answer is.  Several are from a publisher I have purchased from before, MapArt Publishing, in Oshawa, Ontario.  The ISBN prefix is 1-55368.  A publisher of Québec cities is JDMGéo, Ville St-Laurent, Québec, which uses the same prefix and shows www.mapart.com as web address.  That is simple enough, it is a Québec-based affiliate or distributor for the Francophone region.  But here is the real conundrum.  Some major cities, in recent editions, are published y Canadian Cartographics Corp., Markham, Ontario, web address cccmaps.com.  These have the same ISBN prefix, 1-55368.  Searching an individual ISBN in OCLC yields earlier MapArt editions of the same city, and this publisher does not appear in corporate name searches.

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If anyone has information to share, it might be useful here.  Are these the same entity under different names, locations, and web addresses?  Does it reflect a transfer of rights, or cartography by one entity and distribution by another?

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Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>

Maps Librarian                          Phone: 513-529-1726

Miami University Libraries

Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA

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