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     The USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) CD-ROM is due from
the printer in early May.  If all is well and done to specifications, it will
be available then from the USGS ESIC offices and/or Map Distribution Branch,
Denver, Colorado 80225.  The cost will be $57.
 
      Unfortunately the CD-ROM uses proprietary software and will not be
distributed through the GPO library depository program.
 
                     Michael Noga, UCLA
                     Cartographic Users Advisory Council Rep
                     Liaison to USGS