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3 Map Requirements
3 Map Requirements
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The relative importance respondents placed on printing styles is shown in Table 9 and Figure 5. Full-color geologic maps are clearly the type of geoscience maps users want most.
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In addition to the extra time needed to process the maps, colored maps require extra field time to produce the degree of quality to justify the high cost of colored map printing. Most information portrayed on geophysical and groundwater maps, on the other hand, is accurately and concisely portrayed by black-and-white maps.
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The percentages in column 1 of Table 12, and comparison of the number of respondents in each column of Table 11, indicate a recurring though subtle point emphasized throughout the results of this survey -- that geologic maps are the geoscience map type given most attention by the respondents, and by inference, the type in greatest demand by the user community.
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I,.,:! r I I I I I I I 5 10 15 20 Percent 25 30 35 FIGURE 8 Responses indicating relative importance of self-produced map types.
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Geophysical maps were second overall, largely because of their heavy usage by the petroleum industry, but they scored lower than second place with two of the organizational groups. Many of the self-produced maps within the government group, and some within the academic group, are eventually published, and therefore become available to the general user community.
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