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On Wed, 10 Nov 1993, David Halliwell wrote:

>    To get back to the topic at hand, the most imponderable thing to me is
> why geography professors seem to be so bad at reading maps....
>
>
I am amazed at the lack of map reading and interpretation classes in
undergraduate degrees at U. S. universities.  If the professors are poor
readers themselves, I may have my answer.  My profs required map study,
interpretation, and reading in each course. We have an exceptional map and
air photo class as well as GIS courses to round out the disipline.

However, we have graduate students defending thesis with no maps in them.
Other students have gone on to post grad school whithout ever taking a
cartography class.  They'll be none map readers when finished too.

It's central to the disipline and no student should leave without having
had the opportunity to describe the "story on the Map."

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