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San Francisco CityFlash Street Map

San Francisco Street Map

This is a detail section of a San Francisco Street Map that Randal Birkey produced for Rand McNally/Hallwag in 1989 as part of their CityFlash Map product line. This was the first Rand McNally map product produced on desktop computers. Randal and his team used Apple Macintosh FX, CX and CI computers running Adobe Illustrator [...]

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Quincy Area Street Map – Chicago

Quincy Area Street Map - Chicago

CLIENT Demi & Cooper Advertising Elgin, Illinois OBJECTIVE A real estate developer required a large Chicago area street map for a display wall in their downtown Chicago sales office. Their advertising agency contacted Randal Birkey requiring a Chicago street base map with approximately 300 specific locations to be added. SOLUTION Randal Birkey modified an existing [...]

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Rand McNally CityFlash Maps

Boston Vicinity Map

OBJECTIVE As the recognized premier global map company, Rand McNally was exploring the possible transition from traditional cartography techniques to digital map production in the late 1980′s. A new product line called “CityFlash” maps were to be their first test map products (in partnership with Hallwag in Germany) produced entirely on standard desktop computers using [...]

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