-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [Fwd: Kurdistan maps] Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:44:52 -0600 From: macmap <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Well, there is room in the G schedules for a new country before and after Iraq within the number range. But for now I would put it under Near East: G7421.F1 YEAR .XX (3 or more counties & .F1 for national aspirations) Ok, now that I have it analyzed and classified it--I just need someone to go get me the map:) Best wishes, Scott R. McEathron >===== Original Message From Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> ===== >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Kurdistan maps >Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:37:30 -0500 >From: "ahudson" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] > >------------------ >In an article in The New York Times, January 22, 2003, p. 1, and A8, >about >dreams for a Kurdish State, several illustrations in the article showed >maps of Kurdistan. The article starts out with, > > 'A common and curious sight in northern Iraq is a glossy color map >about >the size of a doormat on display in many homes and on sale in every >bazaar. >The map defines a territory beginning at the northeastern corner of the >Mediterranean Sea and extending east,north and south, ending more than >200 >miles inside Iran. Its name is "Kurdistan," the limits of a land claim >spanning large parts of four nations. It is also the name of a fifth >nation, which does not exist.' > >My question is whether this map, "for sale in every bazaar in northern >Iraq," is available in any way from some of our whizbang map dealers? >Yes, numerous variants are on the Web...and we have printed many off and >even set up a folder for Kurdistan, for the historical record. I am >interested in the map for sale in Iraq. > >ps: if maps of Kurdistan are cataloged, how are they handled >geographically, qualitatively [fantasy maps?]... > >Any ideas out there? > >Alice C. Hudson >Chief, Map Division >The Humanities and Social Sciences Library >The New York Public Library >5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 >New York, NY 10018-2788 > >[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 > >http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html > >The true meaning of life is to plant trees, > under whose shade you do not expect to sit. > - Nelson >Henderson ---------------------------------- Scott R. McEathron Map and Geography Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 418 Main Library, MC-522 1408 West Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 244-1893