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Subject: Re: Lying Maps that Just Lie There
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:42:35 -0600
From: Mary Therese Wyant <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo GIS Forum - Map Librarianship Maps <[log in to unmask]>
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I hope it is OK to jump in and ask a related question about map
disinformation. A UNM colleague recently asked me when the USGS made the
decision to stop mapping archeological sites on the 7.5 minute topos. I
guessed about 20 years ago, but if any one knows for sure, I could get
back with him with a more accurate answer. I looked through old
documents in my file and on the Maps-L Archive but haven't come up with
anything.
Thank you,
Mary
Mary Wyant
Map Librarian
CSEL/University Libraries
MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
505-277-5513
>>> Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> 3/16/2010 8:33 AM >>>
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Subject: Re: Lying Maps that Just Lie There
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:29:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Linda R Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hello,
I thought that I would chime in at this point, as I was on the advisory
committee that developed the guidelines for release of spatial
information after 9/11
(http://www.fgdc.gov/policyandplanning/Access%20Guidelines.pdf). If
you want to see some U.S. Government cartographic disinformation, look
at the older topographic maps of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and/or
Hanford, Washington (late 1940s through the 1990s). We all knew there
were buildings there, but they were not shown on U.S. topographic maps.
After 9/11, the White House and Naval Observatory were pixellated in
some online aerial photography, and blanked out on other photography, as
was the Old Executive Office Building near the White House (they aren't
now, BTW). When I gave talks about my experience on the committee, and
what should/should not be released, I used a quote from Harry Potter &
the Goblet of Fire, as I thought that J.K. Rowling said it best:
”To keep foreign wizards from finding it, they’ll have made it
Unplottable- ” [said Hermione].
“Come again?” [said Ron].
“Well, you can enchant a building so it’s impossible to plot on a
map, can’t you?”
Linda Zellmer
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Linda Zellmer
Government Information & Data Services Librarian
415 Malpass Library
Macomb, IL 61455
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Phone: 309-298-2723
Fax: 309-298-2791
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