Hi Jay,

And I thought winter was going to slow you down!

Your map looks good. What I think I'll do for now is put up a dot on
the state map for Middletown, and link from it directly to your
clues, without going through the map. This is what I've done with
other town dots that have only one box (e.g. Mt. Monadnock,
Longmeadow).

When more boxes are up in the Middletown or Hartford area, we can
decide what regional maps could best blanket the area. Hartford might
have its own map, Meriden/Middletown another.

It looks as though your map is right on target in terms ox extending
southeast to Higganum and south to Durham; it makes for a smooth
continuation of the areas shown on the Cochester and New Haven maps.

You might want to start a Notepad textfile in which you keep the
Tiger Map Server URL's of each map you generate. Save the address
before you convert it into a downloadable GIF. That way you can
always go back to the same map and make changes (e.g. put in lat/long
grid lines, take out county or city boundaries, or whatever.)

I'm sending you the URL address for Lyme. You can see the different
features I've clicked on and off if you go there. This is the format
into which I've finally settled, after much trial and error.

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?infact=2&outfact=2&act=move
&on=CITIES&on=GRID&off=cen_blkg&off=censusb&off=con_dist&off=counties
&off=indian&on=majroads&on=miscell&off=places&off=railroad&on=shoreli
n&on=streets&off=tracts&on=interstate&on=statehw
on=states&on=ushwy&on=water&off=zip_code&tlevel=-&tvar=-&tmeth=i&mlat
=&mlon=&msym=redpin&mlabel=&murl=&lat=41.3739204&lon=-72.3847351&wid=
0.250&ht=0.250&conf=mapnew.con&map.x=224&
map.y=179

Tell me if my mail program chops this up into unusable fragments, and
I'll try again in another format.

Best,

Tom