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     Jim Coombs
     Map Librarian
     SW Missouri State Univ.
 
     As I'm sure you (and Russell Guy of OMNI Resources) will agree, it is
     ususally best to seek a map of a certain country from that country's
     own survey/mapping authority.  If only to better ensure that
     administrative information, toponyms, and legends are correct.  Unless
     your professor insists on an equally balanced political/physical map
     might I suggest, in place of a German (but entirely in English
     language?) product, that a map from our (British) Ordnance Survey
     should be sought?  There is, for example, 'United Kingdom:
     administrative [map]', [Ed.]A, 1:1 000 000, Southampton; OS, 1996, 99
     x 90cm, which "[...] shows the administrative areas corrected to April
     1997 but [...] does not include the District boundaries", and includes
     on the sheet 'How they looked in the past: the counties of Great
     Britain [as of 1879]'.
 
     Lacking admin. data there is the 'Relief map of Great Britain'. [ca
     1:1 750 000], OS, 1993, 77 x 49cm, which was "Produced from OS 1:50
     000 scale Digital Elevation Models".  Looking to (more obviously)
     commercial map-makers, I would suggest Bartholomew products for
     HarperCollins, or Philip; this is certainly where OMNI (and other IMTA
     members) should help selection - on the assumption that their data
     sources (e.g. producers' catalogs) are sufficiently informative!
     These days, of course, firms like Philip, Harper-Collins, and the OS
     can produce the map you wish on demand - if you're prepared to pay...
     Lamination/rollers, is usually (as I'm sure you know) an 'extra'.
 
     Sincerely
     Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS, London)
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