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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:51:27 -0800
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Maybe it would be helpful for a poll from this group?

Debbi

"A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat."

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Subject:        RE: shipments of US topos?
Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:55:32 -0600
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Coincidently, Russ Caton, a Missouri State Univ. alum and now a
cartographer at USGS, Rolla, paid me a visit yesterday. He was excited
about the 125th Anniversary for Topographic Mapping and the new series
of digital topographic maps, so I asked him about this issue.  He is a
proponent of paper topo maps, and said the decision to offer the new
topos in digital format only was made by folks in the USGS
administration who obviously don't actually use topos in the field.

He thinks the 'digital only' decision is a mistake and he will do what
he can to change it.

Jim

Jim Coombs
Map Librarian
Duane G Meyer Library
Missouri State University