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Wikipedia - Maps - the important travel need must have
Cartography, or map-making is the study and, often, practice, of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface (see History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer.
Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which also include aeronautical and nautical charts, railroad network maps, and hiking and bicycling maps. In terms of quantity, the largest number of drawn map sheets is probably made up by local surveys, carried out by municipalities, utilities, tax assessors, emergency services providers, and other local agencies. Many national surveying projects have been carried out by the military, such as the British Ordnance Survey (now a civilian government agency internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work).
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America's Prettiest Towns
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — in this case, these five experts
By Rob Baedeker

Are you ready for your close-up, America? The overall picture may come into slightly sharper focus after November, but that hasn’t stopped us from finding the 20 prettiest towns in the homeland right now. From Bisbee to Cape May, they’ve each got something special that should put them on the savvy traveler’s radar.
Identifying America’s prettiest towns is by definition a subjective undertaking — prettiness, to adapt an old saying, is in the ....... Read more .....
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