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Tour Napa Valley Wineries: A Wine Primer
August 30, 2016
Think of taking a leisurely drive along the California Coast and visiting Napa Valley wineries? Wine tasting can be a relaxing way to spend a weekend. We carry several maps of California, Oregon, and Washington Wineries. Here’s a primer to what you’ll learn during your wine tour: Nose NOSE includes aroma…
Napa Wine Country, Sonoma Wine Country
July 27, 2016
Around the world, Napa wine country is certainly most known for being “wine country” for the entire United States. California’s wine comes out in the top tier of wines internationally. This has been true since 1976 when California wine started winning international awards. Year after year the epitome of quality…
Read a Street Map: Your Sense of Direction
May 31, 2016
You have good spatial recognition, or maybe you don’t. For example, you happen to be in San Diego. Do you go out of your hotel room heading toward the elevator and go off in the wrong direction? Do you open a street map and feel fairly overwhelmed, fold it back…
Happy New Year from GM Johnson Maps
January 4, 2016
Guy and Karen Johnson owners of GM Johnson Map went snow shoeing on New Year’s Eve. The pictures were taken from Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The view was spectacular. Now about maps. In 2015 we published 18 new maps: Wyoming Large Print Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie,…
16,000 Map Geeks
September 8, 2015
GM Johnson’s Atlanta Regional map was selected by a panel of judges at the 2014 ESRI User Group Conference Map Gallery in San Diego for inclusion in ESRI Map Book Volume 30, 2015 edition. Over 16,000 users attended the 2014 conference. ESRI Press printed 32,000 Volume 30 Map Books and we…