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Follow-up to a previous posting that I did.
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:12:12 GMT
From: m.wood <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Design questionnaire <fwd>
 
Dear colleagues in cartography,
 
About wo weeks ago I sent out the following gentle 'reminder'/request for
help:
 
>Dear friends,
>
>Recently I and two colleagues sent out a questionnaire as part of our
>investigation into the practitioners' view of map design.  We mailed
>over two hundred of these mainly to the UK but with a good
>representation to the US and Canada.  The requested deadline was 15
>March of this year and, sadly, so far (and with only 2 weeks to go) we
>have received only 15 returns.
>
>I know how difficult it can be to answer such questionnaires (and we
>have tried to make most of the questions easy to answer) but I would
>like to put out a SPECIAL PLEA for you to try to complete and return
your
>copy.  I have been asked to report on this project at the SoC Summer
>School in September and I would like to make that presentation as full
>as possible.  To the people who have already responded we are very
>grateful.  The information contained in these forms is very interesting
>but our results will be of considerably lower value of based on such a
>low response.  I do appreciate that for some resaons you may find it
>difficult or impossible to respond to this request but please try, or
email
>me.
>
>ALSO!!!  If there are any cartographers on this list who have NOT
>received a copy of the questionnaire and WOULD LIKE ONE, please
>reply to [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask]
>
>The more responses we get the better!
>
>Thank you for your patience,
 
I am glad to say that we now have nearly 30 responses but this is still
low for analysis.  I would like to thank all those who have helped so far.
I realise that the stated deadline is all but gone but I am willing to
extend it to 22 March if I can encourage others to return their copy,
completed.  We really do need the responses if we hope to derive any
representative impression.
 
Thank you again,
 
Mike