I'd recommend MapInfo. We've just started using it and it's on-screen 
digitising is an excellent feature for those of us unfortunate enough 
not to be able to buy their digital maps 'off the peg'. I've just 
been using it to digitise a map of London districts in 1851. 
Digitising is never going to be a fulfilling activity but Mapinfo 
provides the best facilities I've seen and it then goes on to draw 
sensible maps.

If you need more info just let me know.

Regards

Martyn Jessop

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Martyn Jessop
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London


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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:53:20 GMT0BST PAUL SMITH 
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> I am currently writing a history of the Senate of the French Third 
> Republic and need to draw a lot of electoral maps of France (a sort 
> pof Goguel of the evolution of the Senate).  Does anyone know of 
> software that might make my task easier or which could be adapted?
> 
> Paul Smith






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