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Another major question in Clark County is whether the map-makers try to create a majority-Hispanic district -- a growing possibility given the increasing size of that community.

Odds good for Democrats as Nevada adds a seat Aaron Blake 2011

They are all from different parts of the county, and by drawing those areas in or out of a new district, the map-makers could give one of those candidates a leg up on competitors in a Democratic primary.

Odds good for Democrats as Nevada adds a seat Aaron Blake 2011

In post-Culloden Scotland the map-makers had used a small, tripod-mounted telescope or prototype theodolite to measure sight-lines from landmark to landmark.

Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review Ian Thomson 2010

Nazi map-makers redrew Europe's frontiers in the shadow of the swastika, with an emphasis on "Jew-free" (Judenfrei) areas of conquest.

Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review Ian Thomson 2010

An absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome

Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review Ian Thomson 2010

This was another bit of British map-drawing, just like the disastrous one creating modern "Iraq" -- a country which also never existed before, except in the imagination of extravagant British map-makers like Gertrude Bell and her Foreign Office sponsors.

Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010

This was another bit of British map-drawing, just like the disastrous one creating modern "Iraq" -- a country which also never existed before, except in the imagination of extravagant British map-makers like Gertrude Bell and her Foreign Office sponsors.

Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010

Instead of deferring to the maps drawn by lawmakers or making specifically tailored adjustments, the court changed the boundaries of all 36 Congressional districts despite no legal finding of wrongdoing by the legislature's map-makers.

Holder's Texas Intrusion 2012

This was another bit of British map-drawing, just like the disastrous one creating modern "Iraq" -- a country which also never existed before, except in the imagination of extravagant British map-makers like Gertrude Bell and her Foreign Office sponsors.

Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010

Notoriously, in 1824 government map-makers moved to Ireland.

Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review Ian Thomson 2010