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		<title>Country Studies / Area Handbook Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the 1960s the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Department of Defense, has issued country studies (the Area Handbook Series) on lesser-known areas of the world, or areas where American troops might be deployed. About 500 maps from the 1960s to the 1990s have now been added to Cartoko, covering history, natural resources, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/62/country-studies-area-handbook-series/</link>
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		<title>The Land of Palms and Bananas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone browsing through 19th and early 20th century world geographies has probably come upon some terms and map labels that give one pause. This vegetation map from a 1916 edition of Elements of Physical Geography is a case in point, where the world is divided into several &#8220;zones&#8221; from polar to tropical, the latter of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/50/the-land-of-palms-and-bananas/</link>
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		<title>Cartoko on KML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having content is essential, but the ability to discover that content in the geoweb is just as critical. In addition to the textual searches on the site, and an increasing presence via search engines, we released this weekend the first KML interface for Cartoko. It provides basic background information on each country (plus many territories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/40/cartoko-on-kml/</link>
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		<title>Six Thousand and Counting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six thousand maps is not a particularly large number. Wikipedia, for example, has quite a few more maps than that. The USGS has almost ten times that number in its 7.5&#8242; topographic set alone. But that milestone was recently reached here at Cartoko after 7 active months of adding material (and describing it) in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/37/six-thousand-and-counting/</link>
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		<title>United States County Population Density Maps, 2008 (by Mapkist)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Spring the U.S. Census Bureau rolls out its new county population estimates. These estimates are for July 1st of the preceding year. In the case of the data released in 2009, it means this is what the Census Bureau estimated the population of each county (or county equivalent) to be on July 1, 2008. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/25/united-states-county-population-density-maps-2008-by-mapkist/</link>
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		<title>National Atlases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
National atlases, regardless of origin, are often viewed as an opportunity for a country to show off &#8211; to establish itself as a country worthy of respect in both its own eyes and the eyes of the world.
The Statistical Atlas of the United States, published in 1874 after the 9th Census, was in some ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/16/national-atlases/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the maps you can&#8217;t see</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a blog about the map wiki Cartoko. The blog&#8217;s main goal is to provide information on the latest major updates, feature enhancements, and milestones. Occasionally there might also be some commentary on related subjects in the world of online map repositories and indexes.
If anyone has any suggestions for the site, the blog, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoko.com/blog/9/its-about-the-maps-you-cant-see/</link>
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