Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
7bit |
Sender: |
|
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Date: |
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:11:34 -0600 |
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed |
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
Reply-To: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
forwarded from another list ...
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Map responsible for death of Oregon man?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:09:43 -0600
From: [log in to unmask]
To: MAPS-L
forwarded from another list ...
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Re: Map responsible for death of Oregon man?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:32:04 -0900
From: Dee Longenbaugh <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,234880,00.html
>
> (Excerpt)
>
> Kati Kim told officers they were traveling south from Portland on
> Interstate
> 5 and missed the turnoff to a state highway, Oregon 42, that leads
> through
> the Coast Range to Gold Beach, where they planned to stay at a resort.
>
> Officers said the couple used a map to choose the road they were
> on. "They
> got the map out - a regular highway map - that showed the route,"
> Anderson
> said.
>
> However, it wasn't clear whose map the couple used. The 2005-2007
> state
> highway map distributed by the Oregon Department of Transportation
> has a
> warning in red print, inside a red box: "This route closed in
> winter." A
> Rand-McNally map did not have a similar warning.
>
> ----------
>
>
Dee Longenbaugh
The Observatory, ABAA
200 North Franklin Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
907/586-9676
www.observatorybooks.com
Since 1977
"It's not the destination that is important, but the journey." J. B.
Angie Cope
__
|
|
|