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Street Atlas USA

    11-Nov-92 21:43:47
Sb: #30753-Street Atlas USA
Fm: Bill Lutholtz 76424,3655
To: Steve Leen 70574,1066
Steve -I'm curious how these errors could've crept into the program — I mean SERIOUSLY! 20-year-old place name errors? Streets changing and new housing developments I can understand. Anybody will cut you some slack for that kind of stuff with a new product. But you've got three "airports" listed in the downtown Indianapolis area that just DON'T EXIST! And, should anyone try to land a plane at one of these places and crash, I hope they don't use the map to find their way to St. Vincent Hospital — which is about a half hour's drive from where you've located it! It looks like the program was put together by someone using VERY OLD maps… When I called about it, someone on the tech staff said that the info was taken from the U.S. Census TIGER data. If so, is TIGER really this far off course? Maybe we ought to be complaining to them…? I also noticed that Patoka Lake in Southern Indiana (near Paoli) isn't on the map, though the town of Newton Stewart is shown. Newton Stewart's at the BOTTOM of Patoka — the town was submerged when the lake was opened in the late-1970s. –Bill