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Maptool

I was extremely pleased to see that Maptool had been used to create maps for several of the presenations at the symposium. In particular, ALan Reese and Dimitris Margaritoulis had three posters with Maptool maps. Brendan had a bunch of very nice maps of turtle satellite tracks from West Africa. And Randall Arauz had some maps in a talk about TEDs which I missed unfortunately. Also saw a poster from Barbados that may have had a Maptool map (not sure because it wasn't cited). There may have been others that I missed. I'll try to provide links to these examples of how Maptool is being used when I get home so people can get some idea of what you can do with it.

In general I received good feedback from people. I was disappointed to see a variety of sub-standard maps in many posters and presentations. With Maptool freely available to all there's just no excuse.

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I also used Maptool for my presentation. It is easy to make even if you are not a computer wiz. Plus you have the opportunity to make changes to suit you, your paper and the overall appearance of your presentation. Thank you Mike!

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