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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: maps of japan
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:53:17 -0800 (PST)
From: xh zhang <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Dear all,
Dr.Whyte is absolutely right. There is no sheet number on
the existing 200K,50K,25K topo/geo indices, which makes those who
can not read Japanese or can not access to Japanese speakers a
little bit difficult to use these maps. I have spent several hours
trying to figure out the corresponding sheet number for every single
sheet for all 50K Topos. I believe it will help to locate the 25K
maps as well. Those who are interested can access the index through:
Go to: www.cartographic.com <http://www.cartographic.com/>
Choose: Select Products Through Interactive Map: Topographic Maps
Select: Japan from country list
Select: Topographic from product category
Select: 1:50,000 from scale
Select: JAPAN 1:50k
You will find the index.
More indices like these will be added in the future.
Hope it helps.
Thanks.
Xiaohong
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Xiaohong Zhang
Map librarian
East View Cartographic
3020 Harbor Lane North,
Minneapolis, MN, 55447
(763)550-0965
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Otherwise the Japanese Survey dept has free sheet indexes, one
for geological and one for topo maps. Map sellers will have
these and give them to you free also. But neither of these
indexes, nor the atlas index above, has sheet numbers... you
have to work these out yourself!
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Only the 10k maps have a sheet name in Roman letters as well as
Kanji, but neither index above gives these.
Central Yokohama is covered by sheet "Kannai". Central Tokyo by
"Shinjuku" (contains western edge of palace), "Nihonbashi"
(contains Tokyo sta! tion, Ginbza, most of Imperial palace),
"Ueno" and "Ikebukuro".
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Of the 25k maps, three cover the three Volcano Islands, Japabn's
most outlying possessions:
NG-54-16-12-3.4 covers Kita (ie north) Iwo Jima island and is
titled "Kita Iwo Jima" (in Kanji, not Romanji!)
NG-54-17-12-1.3.4 covers the famous WW2-battleground island of
Iwo Jima, and is titled "Iwo Jima". Apparently the island is
off-limits to visitiors still, due to unexploded ordnance from
WW2...
NG-54-18-11-2 covers Minami (ie South) Iwo Jima and has insets
for Minami Tori Shima (Marcus Island), and Okino-tori-shima
[Parece Vela](a reef way SW of Iwo Jima) and shows the concrete
structures designed to keep the 'island' above water! The sheet
is titloed "Minami Iwo Jima"
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A very useful and excellently drawn free map of Tokyo is
"Bilingual ma p of Greater
Tokyo" produced by the Japan Hotel Association, Tokyo Branch. I
got mine at the tourist
info counte! r at Keisei Ueno railway station.
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The best map shop in Tokyo is the "Japan Map Center", a short
walk (1km?) west from
Shinjuku station
http://www.jmc.or.jp/
(Japanese only)
The staff spoke no English when I visited, and they file the
maps by name, not number,
but I had no problems buying maps. All the 200k, 50k and 25k
maps are kept as samples
is large ringbinders held in a vertical rack, with an index on
the cover. So just
locate what you want, show the staff and they will pull out a
copy to sell you.
The shop has lots of plastic relief maps, geophysical maps,
aerial photos, etc. It
sells only Japan maps, not foreign material, as far as I could see.
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Dr Brendan Whyte
Geography Department
Faculty of Social Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
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