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  As soon as the automation department finishes some minor touches,
there will be an announcement regarding a means of using a clickable
map as a finding aid for USGS maps covering northern Ohio.
  While developing this experimental program, we searched all the
sites we could find, looking for a model, but to no avail.  There
were plenty of interactive maps and there is John Fieber's Map Finder
program (http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/mapfinder, I believe,
as I'm doing that from memory), which does not have a cartographic UI.
Map Finder is based, I believe, on the GEODEX source files at the
AGS collection in Milwaukee, which may be the single best database of
national and international maps available.  Were GEODEX or Map Finder
to put a clickable map interface on their programs I think they'd
be what Alex Barker is looking for.
  Meanwhile, watch for CPL's announcement about the hypermap of
northern Ohio and tell us what you think.
 
Bill Barrow
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