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GIS produce high quality graphics:

• to the screen, first and foremost;

• to printers (especially color printers, which produce dramatic images), and

• to files (e.g. postscript files, gif and jpeg images).

How to present the information is another issue entirely! ArcView provides a ``Layout'' feature, which allows one to compose a plot, adding a legend, scale, title, etc. Creating a map like this is very quick. But has the ability to make maps quickly and easily also made us careless? For example, because I accepted all the defaults ArcView assumed that my units were miles, and produced an incorrect scale on the example map....