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From: mrp@cre.canon.co.uk (Martin Portman)
Subject: Re: New Spa Graphics + utility
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Harald Boers (hboers@kabelfoon.nl) wrote:

: Well, a lot of tracks are not even close, scenery wise, but that has a lot
: to do with licensing. But Spa also suffers in another way: If I remember
: this story correctly, Papy was not allowed to put the buildings of villages
: etc. at the correct places because they didn't want the villages to be
: recognized. (afraid for GPL tourists I think........). I don't remember the
: source of this story but I think it was Mike Lescault (producer of GPL).


if you want to be a 'virtual gpl tourist' get the map image of spa from

http://www.teleport.com/~billtill/gplimages/spa.jpg

print it out, rotate for north, and then compare to the roads on:

http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?screen=ia-map-result&zoom_level=8&uid=u40aa6oa4704ccev&randon=301&link=ia-map-result

you can even spot the kink in masta straight!

martin.
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