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Way back in the ancient days when records were kept on cards and there was
never enough time to catalog everything completely, map collections favored
cartographer as the main entry or the responsible party. Museums and art
galleries favored the engraver. Yes, no end of confusion sometimes. Now, in
our wonderful age of computers, all involved parties and all elements can be
recorded and searched so publisher as author and cartographer vs. engraver are
matters not so much resolved as made irrelevant so long as all are entered in
searchable fields. Yeah, we will still have our opinions as to which is
primary.
JBP
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