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Old December 10th 04, 04:57 PM
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Kyler Laird wrote:
: Oh, and I verified that the sectionals *are* generated
: photographically. They're maintained on "plates" not on a
: computer.

Wow... that's impressive. I'm assuming you mean just the basic ground
shading, etc? The man-made artifacts aren't on the master "plates," right?
Otherwise, anytime anything changed (airways, airport public/private, airspace, etc),
they'd have to re-art the underlying image.

-Cory

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