Close

Close
Special Announcement
Newsletter Sign Up
Calendar
Back November '09 Forward
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30            
Syndicate This Blog
Top Referers
myteams.dot.ga.gov (161)
planetgs.com (106)
www.thegisforum.com (73)
www.bloglines.com (44)
www.spatialsciences.org.au (32)
Our Points
Tuesday, August 9. 2005

Alleged Map Thief Pleads Innocent

E. Forbes Smiley III, of Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts was charged with stealing antique maps from a Yale Library. They were found on his person when he was arrested in the library lobby on Monday. Today he plead not guilty. Other libraries he’s visited lately are also finding missing maps. Wasn’t there a non-fiction book on this sort of story out recently?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 12:41 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

Map Dealer in Court Yesterday
E. Forbes Smiley III, who was charged with stealing maps from a university library (see previous entry), was in court yesterday: he pleaded not guilty; his next court appearance is scheduled for October 3. More on the arrest from the...
Weblog: The Map Room
Tracked: Aug 10, 05:35

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

The book is "The Island of Lost Maps" ISBN : 0753813157, released in 2002
#1 Brent Fraser on 2005-08-09 14:09 (Reply)

Add Comment

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA
    
  
 
Advertisers
Polls
What's your opinion of the quality of Google's "new" U.S. dataset?
I haven't noticed a difference.
It's better.
it's not as good.
I don't use Google Maps regularly.

Archives
Comments
Archie Belaney about ESRI Keywords: Authoritative Data, Generic Services
November 6
"If" you get a straight answer, I'll be [...]


Emile Zola about ESRI Keywords: Authoritative Data, Generic Services
November 6
Word on the street is ESRI used NGA [...]


Adena Schutzberg about ESRI Keywords: Authoritative Data, Generic Services
November 6
I've asked that question of ESRI. I'll [...]


MW about ESRI Keywords: Authoritative Data, Generic Services
November 6
I would be interested in hearing if [...]


Adena Schutzberg about Tuscany's Open Source GIS Evolves
November 5
Thanks Mouse and sorry Tuscany!


Joe Francica about NY State GIS Consultant Promotes Snowmobiling and her Business
November 5
Herkimer, NY! Well known site of the [...]


Anon Y. Mouse about Tuscany's Open Source GIS Evolves
November 5
Sp. on headline - one N


Amazon Recommendations