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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:42:55 -0500
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fwd: cataloguing conundrum <fwd>
Sender: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
Ken,
We recently acquired the very same map and I assisted one of my Team
members with the whole complicated parallel title situation to this thing.
Did not notice the coordinate problem! Anyway, your solution sounds exactly
like how I would have handled this, determine the accurate coordinates and
put them in the two separate 034 and 255 fields, then construct a note
indicating the incorrect nature of the coordinates given on the map itself.
Other suggestions????
Paige
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>Subject: cataloguing conundrum <fwd>
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>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:34:27 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: cataloguing conundrum
>Sender: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
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>I acquired a new map during the summer, that I have been trying to
>catalogue. It is a double map, one side covering the "Inca Trail, or
>Camino Inka" to Machu Picchu, and on the other side the "Sacred Valey" and
>route from Cusco to the Trail.
>
>The most difficult aspect of the cataloguing effort is that some of the
>coordinates given on the map appear to be wrong. That is, some of the
>latutudinal coordinates are numbered in the qrong direction!
>
>On the Camino Inka map, the right hand side shows, north to south, in
>two-minute increments, 13 degrees 16 minutes to 13 degrees 10
>minutes. The opposite edge shows, at the top, 13 degrees 10 minutes as
>opposite 13 degrees 16, and then to the south 13 degrees 12 minutes. In
>other words, they go in the wrong direction on one side, and nor do they
>agree on which parallel is which.
>
>On the other map, the parallels are labelled the same on each edge, but
>they appear to be numbered in the wrong direction, going in 10-minute
>increments, from 13 degrees 20 minutes to 13 degrees 30 minutes. This map
>shows Cusco along the south edge of the map. If I assumed that the
>right-hand latitudes are correct on the first map, than this could
>possibly be from 13 degrees 10 minutes to 12 degrees 50 minutes.
>
>The conundrum is how to convey that, in fields that call for concision in
>formatted methods, rather than unformatted. This is already going to be a
>long record (for such a small piece of paper!), with the two maps, each
>with parallel titles. Would it be acceptable practice to include a note
>describing the situations with the printed coordinates, with the correct
>coordinates (if they are such) in the 034 and the 255 fields?
>
>These are really fine maps, despite the coordinates problem, very
>attractively printed, and laden with useful information for the Andean
>trekker.
>
>___________________________
>Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
>Miami University Libraries
>Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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