1. Making a NGS Reference Map: Cuba

2. Selling the idea: Spring 2010

3. Cuba Map Project Staff : September 2010 - May 2011
From left to right: Debbie Gibbons, Director of Production; Maureen (Mo) Flynn, Editor; Juan Valdés, Project Manager; Rosemary Daley, GIS Cartograher; and Julie Ibinson, Researcher

5. INITIAL BASE PLOT TRIM 24” x 36” PROJECTION: HOTINE OBLIQUE MERCATOR
SCALE: 1:1,500, cm = 15 km or 1 in = 24 mi

6. Transportation Plot

7. Bathymetric Plot

8. Water Step Plot

9. (Produced from Digital Elevation Model (DEM))
Shaded Relief File
(Produced from Digital Elevation Model (DEM))

10. Base map as first exported from GIS to Production prior to styling in Adobe Illustrator

11. A Secondary Map Source
(One of Eight)

12. Proof Ready Plot

13. Official notice on changes to Cuba's administrative divisions
September 2, 2010

15. U.S. State Department Map of Cuba, January 2011

16. U.S. Board on Geographic Names (Foreign Names) File Change
December 16, 2010

17. Correction Copy:
Boundary Alignments

18. Correction Copy: Passenger Railroads

19. Correction Copy: Road Edits

20. Correction Copy: Bathymetric Features and Soundings

21. Correction Copy: Place-Name Check (Spellings and Placement)

22. Press Ready Files: Shipped May 26, 2011