-------- Original Message -------- Subject: World Mapping Project information request Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:43:56 -0500 From: World of Maps Inc. <[log in to unmask]> Organization: World of Maps Inc. ------------------ Greetings mappers, I have a question for members of this list. We have recently received a new line of country and regional maps published in the U.K. by Rough Guides. These maps are of a good quality and level of detail, I shall provide a complete list below with the available titles, scale & ISBN's. What I find interesting but cannot track further information about is the description on the maps and in the promotional material that states the maps come from the "World Mapping Project, a consortium of German cartographers." An identifying symbol - logo of the World Mapping Project appears together with the Rough Guide Ltd. publishing information. I have not been able to find more information about this organization from regular sources. This past October at the Frankfurt Book fair we found a German publisher "REISE KNOW-HOW" that has a much larger collection of these "World Mapping Project" maps published with the REISE KNOW-HOW front cover. It is not uncommon for a map publisher to sell the cartography - art work and the exact same map can have different front covers, ISBN's and price. These maps appear genuinely new and I do not recognize the cartography as being existing cartography from ADAC, Freytag & Berndt, Michelin, Hallwag, Kummerley & Frey or other European map publishers that I am familiar with. Can anyone in Maps-L shed more light on the organization "World Mapping Project"? Faithfully, Brad Green -- ========= World of Maps Inc. ========= The Source for Geographic and Travel information 1235 Wellington St. Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1Y 3A3 Telephone (613) 724-6776 -OR- 1-800-214-8524 Fax. (613) 724-7776 or 1-800-897-9969 http://www.worldofmaps.com mailto:[log in to unmask] Brad Green's private email mailto:[log in to unmask] Rough Guide rip-proof and water proof Country and Regional Maps Specifications Material: Rip-proof, waterproof 90gsm PolyartTM Size folded: 10" x 4" Size flat: 27.5" x 36.2" Double sided Price: $13.50CAD or US$ 8.95 each Cartography Mapping based on WGS 84 system Map projection: Lambert Conformal Larger-scale maps also feature a UTM grid Latitude -longitude grids Topographic mapping with timts and contour lines Innovative colouring: white for sea-level areas, darkening to grey; green and brown for relief Detailed road, rail, ferry and tourist information researched on the ground Exhaustive list of place names Places of interest in red refer to coverage in the relevant Rough Guide travel guide Andalucia and Costa Del Sol 1-84353-207-7 1:650,000 Argentina 1-84353-231-X 1:2,000,000 Australia 1-84353-208-5 1:4,500,000 Baja California 1-84353-221-2 1:650,000 Cuba 1-84353-209-3 1:850,000 Cyprus 1-84353-232-8 1:250,000 Dominican Republic 1-84353-223-9 1:450,000 Egypt 1-84353-210-7 1:1,250,000 Greece 1-84353-211-5 1:650,000 Guatemala and Belize 1-84353-233-6 1:500,000Hawaiian Islands 1-84353-212-3 1:200,000 Ireland 1-84353-214-X 1:350,000 Mexico 1-84353-213-1 1:2,250,000 Morocco 1-84353-215-8 1:1,000,000 New Zealand 1-84353-224-7 1:1,000,000 South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho 1-84353-225-5 1:1,700,000 Sri Lanka 1-84353-226-3 1:500,000 Tenerife 1-84353-234-4 1:120,000 Thailand 1-84353-216-6 1:1,200,000 Yukatàn Peninsula 1-84353-235-2 1:650,000 -- ========= World of Maps Inc. ========= 1235 Wellington St. Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1Y 3A3 Thousands of topo maps, aeronautical charts, nautical charts, International maps & atlases, travel books, satellite posters Telephone (613) 724-6776 -OR- 1-800-214-8524 Fax. (613) 724-7776 or 1-800-897-9969 http://www.worldofmaps.com mailto:[log in to unmask]