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This new, scarcely backpack-able volume, arranged in an A-Z format, also has cartography at its heart.

Its leading expert is probably Jim Akerman, the director of the Smith Center for the History of Cartography, at the Newberry Library, in Chicago.

Five years ago, John W. Hessler, a historian of cartography at the library, published "The Naming of America," an account of the map's importance in post-Ptolemy geography, its disappearance for centuries and its rediscovery in a castle near the Black Forest in southwestern Germany.

"We compare them with records from planning offices and engineers' offices to make sure we have all the streets," said Vera Benson, director of cartography at Hagstrom Maps, a division of Langenscheidt that specializes in maps of the New York metropolitan area (including parts of Connecticut and New Jersey).

Names now float in generic type outside of what Vera Benson, the director of cartography at Hagstrom, refers to as "the casing" of the streets (in honor, she said, of the founder of the Hagstrom company, who came to New York after working as a sausage maker in Sweden).

"The same roads that would have been suitable for bicyclists were also suitable for automobiles because they were almost as fragile," said James Akerman, a pre-eminent road map historian and the director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

"It is a revolution," said Matthew H. Edney, director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Last month's Congressional elections were the first to be held in new districts that were drawn across the country after the once-a-decade process of redistricting, when many state officials, charged with redrawing their district maps to account for population shifts, indulge in carefully calculated partisan cartography aimed at giving their party an edge.

Cartography executives at other companies said AEA was unhappy with Rand McNally's progress, despite recent joint ventures including a partnership with Thales Navigation, a maker of global positioning systems, and Palm Inc. to provide a car system with voice-command, turn-by-turn driving instructions.

In such a way, modern digital techniques, in particular study of map deformations and map georeferencing, help in metric analysis of ancient cartography, and at last they appear to be useful for researchers to derive historical information for their studies, for example related to urban development or to geomorphological and environmental topics.

On first sight, Benjamin Fry's "Genomic Cartography: Chromosome 21" at the International Center of Photography looks vaguely like an abstract painting by Agnes Martin.