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I should have never responded to your request for information, in that I
realize that I have just walked into a hornets nest consisting of flamers.
 
However, I can tell you that there are many people of your profession that
have gone into consulting businesses that are geared toward the cartographic
world.  They use university students, hardware, software and facilities to
house their businesses.  Additionally, if they pay their students it is at
minimum.  Most of the times their students are contract.
 
You might want to ask yourself, the next time you are asked to provide an
inordinate amount of information about a subject, how the information is
going to be used.
 
My first message attempted to convey the thought that the end users of "maps"
are getting conflicting information from people who have not done their
homework.