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Re: older topo map index books (fwd)
From:
Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:33:51 -0400
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:21:00 -0600
From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: older topo map index books (fwd)
 
>Hear hear on the more useful topo books. . . .
>"Too costly" is what we have been told.
 
The story I heard was that books have to be printed/bid by the GPO, but
that "maps" can be printed by USGS itself, so that's why they went back to
maps.  Personally, I prefer the maps with the quad name printed right in
place to looking up 24K names in the books.
 
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Dennis McClendon, Chicago CartoGraphics      [log in to unmask]

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