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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: Map description
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:34:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Hello, Phyllis.

I can recommend a book that is often used in map introductory courses.  I
find it worthwhile to keep a copy in the reference collection.  Map Use:
Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation, by A. Jon Kimerling, Phillip C.
Muehrcke, and Juliana O. Muehrcke.  It is published in Madison, Wisconsin,
by JP Publications.  This is a revised ed., 2005.

The question you pose is among the types of questions often asked, which
are simple but lack a concise answer.  The book by Kimerling and the
Muehrckes is an excellent vade mecum for these questions.



Ken
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Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, A. Cope wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Map description
> Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:30:47 -0500
> From:   Phyllis Von Arb <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask]
>
> Hi.  I'm an MLIS student doing Fieldwork in a Special Collection Center,
> and have been tasked with organizing a collection of mostly old maps of
> the area.  There are all kinds of maps, many acquired from the City
> Clerk's office and so forth.  I'm trying to figure out what are the
> appropriate terms to use to describe these different maps.  There's a
> little bit of everything, from old maps that appear to have been drawn
> in ink and reproduced somehow (a variety of techniques appear to have
> been used), to blueprints, to old road maps in color.  Without
> completing a doctorate just on this topic (!) is there any general
> guidance you can suggest that would help me to describe these things?
> Thank you!
>
> Phyllis Von Arb
> [log in to unmask]
> Davenport, Iowa
>