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3 . 2 7 : G e o g r a p h i c m a p a s We b d i re c t o r y â&#x20AC;&#x201C; U K A c a d e m i c M a p c h i e f c a r t o g r a p h e r : Peter Burden (School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton, UK). a i m : a geographic index of all UK universities on a single map, to provide an easy way to access their websites. f o r m : a simple outline map of the UK with universities located by graphic markers, along with text labels of each institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name (see following page). t e c h n i q u e : simple HTML image map. d a t e : launched in July 1994; currently version 5 as at September 1998. f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n : see <http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html>
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