----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Follow-up to a previous posting that I did. Alberta |=================================================================| | Alberta Auringer Wood, Maps, Data and Media Librarian | | Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, | | CANADA A1B 3Y1. phone: 709-737-8892; fax: 709-737-2153; | | Internet: [log in to unmask] | |=================================================================| ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:12:12 GMT From: m.wood <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Design questionnaire <fwd> Dear colleagues in cartography, About wo weeks ago I sent out the following gentle 'reminder'/request for help: >Dear friends, > >Recently I and two colleagues sent out a questionnaire as part of our >investigation into the practitioners' view of map design. We mailed >over two hundred of these mainly to the UK but with a good >representation to the US and Canada. The requested deadline was 15 >March of this year and, sadly, so far (and with only 2 weeks to go) we >have received only 15 returns. > >I know how difficult it can be to answer such questionnaires (and we >have tried to make most of the questions easy to answer) but I would >like to put out a SPECIAL PLEA for you to try to complete and return your >copy. I have been asked to report on this project at the SoC Summer >School in September and I would like to make that presentation as full >as possible. To the people who have already responded we are very >grateful. The information contained in these forms is very interesting >but our results will be of considerably lower value of based on such a >low response. I do appreciate that for some resaons you may find it >difficult or impossible to respond to this request but please try, or email >me. > >ALSO!!! If there are any cartographers on this list who have NOT >received a copy of the questionnaire and WOULD LIKE ONE, please >reply to [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] > >The more responses we get the better! > >Thank you for your patience, I am glad to say that we now have nearly 30 responses but this is still low for analysis. I would like to thank all those who have helped so far. I realise that the stated deadline is all but gone but I am willing to extend it to 22 March if I can encourage others to return their copy, completed. We really do need the responses if we hope to derive any representative impression. Thank you again, Mike