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Letter: Map plan

Published 13 April 2005

From Tom Frazier

Your article on people making their own maps does not note the most obvious reason, besides fun (19 March, p 26). All published maps are out of date and most are quite inaccurate. Using the Fugawi program, I have scanned in many maps over the years, then updated them as I travel. Now, if we could easily feed this information back to the map makers to update their digital maps for public use…

Munich, Germany

Issue no. 2495 published 16 April 2005

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