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Subject: RE: Canadian map publishers
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:28:23 -0700
From: Lori Sugden <[log in to unmask]>
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CC: Jack Joyce <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Ken,
Bless Jack Joyce's (ITMB) heart-- he had a note in his Axis newsletter back in April about this.
"... Mapart Publishing in Canada discontinued folded paper maps sometime within the last couple of months. This came to my attention from a customer who wanted a particular title that I didn’t have in my retail store. I advised him to contact Mapart directly, via their website. He did, and reported back that all the paper maps except street atlases had been removed from the site. Mapart was the dominant player in the map trade in Canada. Rand McNally sold their Canadian subsidiary to a principal player in Mapart’s marketing arm a couple of years ago, and the new firm has consolidated publishing and marketing under the name Canadian Cartographics. As inventory depleted, the Mapart artwork was retired and replaced by CCC-modified Rand McNally Canada artwork; thus, the Mapart line shrank in size steadily. Mapart book atlases continue to be updated and marketed, and Mapart sales reps continue to market CCC maps, as well as the former Rand products."
--Lori
Lori Sugden, Map Library, UVic
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http://library.uvic.ca/site/dept/map
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:28 AM
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Subject: Canadian map publishers
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From: "Kenneth A. Mr. Grabach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:19:23 AM
Subject: Canadian map publishers
I have acquired some recently published city maps for some Canadian cities.� I am noticing an interesting thing here, not sure if it matters or what the answer is.� Several are from a publisher I have purchased from before, MapArt Publishing, in Oshawa, Ontario.� The ISBN prefix is 1-55368.� A publisher of Québec cities is JDMGéo, Ville St-Laurent, Québec, which uses the same prefix and shows www.mapart.com as web address.� That is simple enough, it is a Québec-based affiliate or distributor for the Francophone region. � But here is the real conundrum.� Some major cities, in recent editions, are published y Canadian Cartographics Corp., Markham, Ontario, web address cccmaps.com.� These have the same ISBN prefix, 1-55368.� Searching an individual ISBN in OCLC yields earlier MapArt editions of the same city, and this publisher does not appear in corporate name searches.
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If anyone has information to share, it might be useful here.� Are these the same entity under different names, locations, and web addresses?� Does it reflect a transfer of rights, or cartography by one entity and distribution by another?
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