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To reduce clutter, field names were listed in a "Legend" card
and small icons were kept in the background of each feature
card to remind the user of the locations of specific information.
For example, a sketch of the photogrammetric compilation
image was placed in a frame meant to look like a 9x9 stage.
Notes for field edit were placed in a frame looking like a
clipboard. Scribing point sizes were listed next to a scriber
icon, typesetting specifications were placed next to a PMT icon,
and so forth.
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Although the cartographic feature card used some icons to
reduce unnecessary text, there was still a good deal of English
which required translation to Arabic. During the planning
stages, the English was not a problem for the middle-to-high
level Egyptian management, but first-line supervisors and the
technicians themselves, could not use the feature cards
effectively. To provide a ready reference for first-line
supervisors and technicians, the information on the feature
cards was separated into more specialized documents for
Compilation, Field Edit and Color Separation. The resulting
Color Separation Reference had so little text, it was practical to
provide Arabic translations for each word except for numbers
and some type font names.
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Figure 3--Color Separation Reference
2.2 The Color Separation Reference
The Color Separation reference was laid out in a fashion similar
to the conventional symbol sheet, but with a few notable
exceptions. First, the images and selected text were raked off
the feature cards digitally to minimize redundant data entry and
allow for quick updating. The fact that the feature sketches
were reproduced exactly from the feature cards made it easy for
middle management to correlate the two documents. Secondly,
specifications regarding dimensions, color and lineweight were
presented in a procedure-oriented fashion. For example, the
scriber icon appears with the lineweight dimension only for
those features which would be scribed. Lineweights of stick-up
features are not listed; a PMT icon indicates the prescribed
procedure.
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Figure 4--Color Separation Reference Detail
A significant departure from the conventional symbol sheet was
the decision to add a column which shows which photo-
reproducible plate or plates are involved in the color-separation
process. This column contains specific plate icons which are
keyed to the Color Separation Flowcharts.
150,000 Topographic Maps
Color Separation Inventory
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Figure 5--Color Separation Inventory
2.3 The Plate Inventory
The first step in preparing a production flowchart for color
separation was to assign standard icons for each plate which
may exist in the color separation packet for a particular map
series. The specifications team started with the 1:50,000 scale
topographic map series and listed each plate according to
category: Sources, Proofs, Composite Negatives, Type
Positives, etc. Then the plates were numbered sequentially and
