-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Sri Lanka resettlement maps needed Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:37 -0500 From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]> References: <[log in to unmask]> Hi Kathleen; We have the 2007 National Atlas in stock as well as the 2000-2004 editions of the 1:50,000 topos. Thanks Russell At 04:34 PM 11/30/2009, you wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Sri Lanka resettlement maps needed >Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:23:29 -0500 >From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]> >To: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]> > >I am working with a doctoral student who is studying a resettlement >project in Sri Lanka. She is very happy with my 1950's 1:63,360 >topos and with the National Atlas of Sri Lanka, but hopes to find >more maps and especially more detailed maps of the project >areas. Worldcat has not revealed much for me, I wonder if anyone >out there in mapland has an uncataloged something that could be >loaned or scanned. > >The area centers around Maduru Oya National park, which spreads >across the northern tips of Central, Uva, and Eastern >Provinces. Roughly 7 degrees 20 minutes North latitude, and 81 >degrees East Longitude. The resettlement project is called the >Accelerated Mahaweli Development Project and is also referred to >various contractions of that name. This World Bank and >multilateral- sponsored project dates from the late 1977 to the >present, with the resettlement of the idigineous Wanniyala-Aetto >occurring around 1983. She especially would like to find detailed >maps of the Wanniyala-Aetto a.k.a. Veddah settlements prior to their >relocation. >This is an extremely specific map need, I know. Scholars working on >the planning of the project may have gifted maps to a library or >detailed maps map have arrived through a depository program. > > >Kathleen Weessies >Geosciences Librarian >Head, Map Library >100 Library W308 >Michigan State University >East Lansing, MI 48824 >(517)432-6123 x250 >[log in to unmask] > ******************************************************************************* Russell Guy [log in to unmask] Omnimap.com http://www.omnimap.com P.O. Box 2096 Tel.: 800-742-2677 (USA only) 1004 South Mebane St. Tel.: 336-227-8300 (International) Burlington, NC 27216-2096 USA Fax: 336-227-3748 Past President (1996), International Map Trade Association ********************************************************************** **********