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Subject:        Yahoo news: Georgia erases 519 places off the map
Date:   Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:17:47 -0500
From:   Michael Holt <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


And, according to another message, missing information can be
dangerous.  (A personal note, in this respect: I once went on a quest to
find "Dragonville, Virginia."  It's on the State maps, but not on the
road it's said to be on.  So the choice of what to put on a map can go
both ways.)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_re_us/off_the_map

CHATTOOGAVILLE, Ga. - Poetry Tulip has vanished. So have Between and
Climax. Cloudland and Roosterville are gone, too.

A total of 519 communities have been erased from the newest version of
Georgia's official map, victims of too few people and too many letters
of type.

Georgia's Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said
that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of
the dropped communities were mere "placeholders," generally with fewer
than 2,500 people. Some are unincorporated and so small they are not
even recognized by the Census Bureau.


Michael
--
Every time someone says "Happy Holidays," an elf is eviscerated.