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Subject: Re: Needed: map of Tibet
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:50:44 -0400
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

Hi;

The Gizimap is the "best" map of Tibet, although obviously not
"official".  As Ken pointed out it has pinyin and some chinese
character names (on the larger cities and geographic features).  I
have both the "geographic" (elevation color tinting) and the "road"
(without the elevation color tinting) versions in stock folded and
the road map version in stock as a flat map..

I also have in stock the Tibet "province" map by Star Maps (Planet
Maps), a Chinese military publisher.  It is in Chinese characters
only, ISBN 7801049357.

Sinomaps is very difficult to deal with and our experience is that
they almost never answers e-mails or faxes.

Cheers
Russell

At 02:49 PM 9/30/2011, you wrote:
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>Subject:        Needed: map of Tibet
>Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:18:08 -0400
>From:   Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
>To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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>Hi,
>I'm hunting for something that may not exist: a medium- to large-scale
>map of Tibet with place names in Chinese Pinyin (Romanized Chinese). I'm
>hoping to get something official. I'm told that Sinomaps Press (aka
>Zhongguo di tu chu ban she ["China Map Publishing House"] ) is
>considered authoritative, but they have not responded to email
>inquiries, and I've yet to find anything on WorldCat to suggest that
>they produce such a thing.
>
>Anybody have or seen such a thing?
>
>Thanks very much.
>mf
>--
>Michael Fry
>Senior Map Librarian
>National Geographic Society
>1145 17th St. N.W.
>Washington, D.C. 20036
>202.857.7098
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