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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:43:20 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
To: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: older topo map index books (fwd)
 
> A more distressing trend I have noted is that on the newest sheets that
> are not overlayed revisions of an older version, omit the names on the
> margins for adjacent sheets.  One then has to commit to memory the other
> quadrangle names or to keep the index map at hand.
 
Ken,  I think that all the new topos do have a small index grid
printed below the map, showing names of adjacent sheets.  I sort
of like the old way better (along the borders of the map).
 
later,
        Mark
 
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