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She Does a Better Job Than Map Quest!
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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  "She Does a Better Job Than Map Quest!"Wonderful hand-drawn maps from
  firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and
  Alexander Calder.

By Julia TurnerPosted Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at 11:47 AM ET

Last month, I asked */Slate/* readers to send me their hand-drawn maps
<http://www.slate.com/id/2246106/>. The request was part of my series on
signs <http://www.slate.com/id/2245644/>, the tools that professionals
use to orient us and direct us from point A to point B. But official
signs aren't the only things that help us get around. Since early man
first drew on his cave wall—including marks that some scholars argue
were maps of local rivers and settlements—we've been sketching out
routes to guide one another to the market and to the mountain top.


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