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Subject: Re: First Ever Computer-Generated Atlas]
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:33:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Roger Wheate <[log in to unmask]>


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Also in the 1970s, Kai-Iu Fung produced a SYMAP atlas of grasshoppers in
Saskatchewan. Maybe not the first canadian computer atlas, but perhaps a
world first for grasshoppers   .... ?  Roger

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Johnnie D. Sutherland wrote:

> The first Canadian computer-generated atlas that I know about is Claude
> Marois' Employment Atlas: City and Island of Montreal.  Montreal:
> Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 1972.  It used SYMAP V to produce 184
> choropleth maps showing employment by industry, district and  number of
> employees categories in Montreal.
>
> Tim Ross, Map Librarian
> Koerner Library, Univ. of British Columbia

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