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Subject:
Colors on Maps]
From:
"Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:36:42 -0400
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Subject:        Colors on Maps
Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:14:32 -0700
From:   Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps-L (E-mail) <[log in to unmask]>




A couple of weeks ago, I was doing a maps presentation for a class and I
was asked how cartographers pick the colors that are given to countries
on the maps.  Is there any particular significance to them?




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Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents Specialist
Government Documents/Maps
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Mailstop L-2306
Olympia, WA 98505
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http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/index.html
phone:  (360) 867-6251
fax:      (360) 866-6790

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