<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel@xn--ko-wla.pl> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I think that's what should be expected, so I'm not surprised at all. It's probably easier to make a hand-picked map in a fixed scale of one country by one expert, than the rules for the automatically generated map of the whole world in all available scales by a bunch of random people with no clear and stable agenda and using constantly changing data and unlimited data schemes... =P</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">The past few winners of this national map contest were Nat Geo (three times) and the US Census bureau per the slate article. Then this guy just popped up. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The article appeared on slate, so I ordered one. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html" class="">http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.imusgeographics.com/page_294" class="">http://www.imusgeographics.com/usa-maps</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I keep it at my school to show the kids America. Now I need to find a 1:4,000,000 scale map of Japan (kinda small) to show the kids a proper comparison. I could probably print one out on B4. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>