----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Re. Darius Bartlett's question on a new Hammond atlas, I suspect it's the same one mentioned in the July 1993 issue of Geographical Magazine, p. 42...the new Oxford-Hammond Atlas of the World (retail price L37.50), which is the first world atlas to be created entirely from a digitised database...uses a new projection--the Optimal Conformal. Barbara Weatherall, Map & Geography Lib., U. of Ill.