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ENGADGET: Rand McNally's TripMaker RVND 5510 promises RV-easy navigation, Robin Williams at extra charge

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ENGADGET: Rand McNally's TripMaker RVND 5510 promises RV-easy navigation, Robin Williams at extra charge

As late as 1890, the Mountains of Kong still featured in a Rand McNally map of Africa.

WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes

Among them: Rand McNally , Dash Navigation , Trimble Navigation and Uniden .

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US-based mapmaker Rand McNally, for example, changes national borders only when the US State Department recognises a change, although it will shade areas under dispute.

BBC: The politics of making maps

However, I queried Mark-It and LoanX for pricing on a dozen of her portfolio companies, including Rand McNally, MD Helicopters, American LaFrance and Dura Automotive.

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The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).

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