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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:20:02 -0500
From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Map identification <fwd>
Sender: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>



>I'm a cataloger at the Tennessee State Library and Archives and am having
>trouble
>identifying the markings on an unpublished map. It covers most of a 3-county
>section of Tennessee and appears to have been cut from a larger map
>(there's no
>border with identifying information). Someone has annotated the map by drawing
>overlapping rectangles in various colors of ink and labelling them with
>designations such as "105-4A-1."  There are no other markings on the map
>and we
>don't know where it came from.

If the rectangles seem to follow straight lines with regular overlap and
sidelap, it's probably an index to aerial photographs.  The three-county
area suggests that the photography was contracted for by a council of
governments or regional planning council that covers those three counties.

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Dennis McClendon, Chicago CartoGraphics
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