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From: "Kenneth A. Mr. Grabach" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:19:23 AM
Subject: Canadian map publishers
I have acquired some recently published city maps for some Canadian cities. I am noticing an interesting thing here, not sure if it matters or what the answer is. Several are from a publisher I have purchased from before, MapArt Publishing, in Oshawa, Ontario. The ISBN prefix is 1-55368. A publisher of Québec cities is JDMGéo, Ville St-Laurent, Québec, which uses the same prefix and shows www.mapart.com as web address. That is simple enough, it is a Québec-based affiliate or distributor for the Francophone region.  But here is the real conundrum. Some major cities, in recent editions, are published y Canadian Cartographics Corp., Markham, Ontario, web address cccmaps.com. These have the same ISBN prefix, 1-55368. Searching an individual ISBN in OCLC yields earlier MapArt editions of the same city, and this publisher does not appear in corporate name searches.
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If anyone has information to share, it might be useful here. Are these the same entity under different names, locations, and web addresses? Does it reflect a transfer of rights, or cartography by one entity and distribution by another?
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Ken Grabach                          <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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