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Subject: Re: Needed: map of Tibet
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:28:44 -0700
From: Mark Walker <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I can supply the Gizi Tibet map -
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On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: RE: Needed: map of Tibet
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:59:00 -0400
> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Michael,
> I have two maps in my collection. One is from Nepa Maps, Kathmandu,
> Nepal, by Paolo Gondoni. It is Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan. The place
> names in Tibet are in Pinyin. Another, a very nice map of Tibet from
> Gizi Maps, Budapest, Hungary, has place names in Pinyin and Chinese
> characters, and in Tibetan in both roman and Tibetan script.
>
> The Nepa maps edition I have is from 2001, there may be a more recent
> edition. The Gizi Maps sheet is very recent. I think both might be
> available from Omni Maps, and other vendors.
>
> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>
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> Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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> Subject: Needed: map of Tibet
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> -------- Original Message --------
> 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
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> Michael Fry
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> National Geographic Society
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