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“I can’t claim authorship of this idea,” McCarthy joked. “Though I can say that I basically got tired of the UPS driver stopping by my office everyday trying to find an address. We saw a real need for the people of the county and for visitors. It was just too complex to try to describe how to get to places all the time.”
According to E-911 coordinator Richie Burke it was Hal and Beverly Hunter, working with McCarthy, who approached his office about doing a smaller, more user-friendly version of the 36-inch square emergency map that would serve more people. The Emergency Services office supplied the data, including the names of every road and private lane in the county, along with GIS information, to the Hunters, who took the data, simplified it, and had it designed by Warrenton Graphics.
“Emergency Services maps are excellent and very detailed but they come in a 3-ring binder, with each grid on a different page, and they cost $75. That’s of no use to Harry Homeowner,” McCarthy said. “The county couldn’t do it because we didn’t have the resources here to do it in color.” •
The first print run for the map is about 1,000 copies, McCarthy said. All the bills aren’t in yet, but
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