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		<title>Drawing City-Block Style Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City-block style maps (sometimes referred to as &#34;European-style&#34;) are characterized by their use of negative space. Shapes &#8211; in the form of city blocks &#8211; define the positive space, whereas the road areas are negative space. Ortelius excels at designing modern style road maps, with connectable tracks and built-in symbols, and it also has great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Hand Drawn Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Custom maps can be fun to make and help to communicate the right message to your audience. Custom maps are used to show project areas, directions, events and locations in books and publications, exhibit maps, and much, much more. In today&#8217;s world of advanced digital cartography and geographic information systems (GIS), hand drawn maps still [...]]]></description>
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