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Increasing the availability of national mapping products.

J.I. Roney·B.C. Ogilvie
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A discussion of the means employed by the US Geological Survey to facilitate map usage, covering aspects of project Map Accessibility Program including special rolled and folded map packaging, new market testing, parks and campgrounds program, expanded map dealer program, new booklet-type State sales index and catalog and new USGS map reference code. The USGS is seen as the producer of a tremendous nation-wide inventory of topographic and related map products available in unprecedented types, formats and scales, and as endeavouring to increase access to its products. The new USGS map reference code is appended. -J.C.Stone

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J.I. Roney, B.C. Ogilvie. 1981. Increasing the availability of national mapping products.. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70011754

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