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Subject: Re: Sri Lanka resettlement maps needed
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:37 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Kathleen;
We have the 2007 National Atlas in stock as well as the 2000-2004
editions of the 1:50,000 topos.
Thanks
Russell
At 04:34 PM 11/30/2009, you wrote:
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>Subject: Sri Lanka resettlement maps needed
>Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:23:29 -0500
>From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>I am working with a doctoral student who is studying a resettlement
>project in Sri Lanka. She is very happy with my 1950's 1:63,360
>topos and with the National Atlas of Sri Lanka, but hopes to find
>more maps and especially more detailed maps of the project
>areas. Worldcat has not revealed much for me, I wonder if anyone
>out there in mapland has an uncataloged something that could be
>loaned or scanned.
>
>The area centers around Maduru Oya National park, which spreads
>across the northern tips of Central, Uva, and Eastern
>Provinces. Roughly 7 degrees 20 minutes North latitude, and 81
>degrees East Longitude. The resettlement project is called the
>Accelerated Mahaweli Development Project and is also referred to
>various contractions of that name. This World Bank and
>multilateral- sponsored project dates from the late 1977 to the
>present, with the resettlement of the idigineous Wanniyala-Aetto
>occurring around 1983. She especially would like to find detailed
>maps of the Wanniyala-Aetto a.k.a. Veddah settlements prior to their
>relocation.
>This is an extremely specific map need, I know. Scholars working on
>the planning of the project may have gifted maps to a library or
>detailed maps map have arrived through a depository program.
>
>
>Kathleen Weessies
>Geosciences Librarian
>Head, Map Library
>100 Library W308
>Michigan State University
>East Lansing, MI 48824
>(517)432-6123 x250
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