in Joel's piece, but this really does not account for what the research actually accomplished. While I enjoyed his article and the references to "Officialdom" that we all know to be valid without reproach, I had to take issue with other aspects, prompting a hopefully polite retort. A Different View ead the abstract, my first thoughts were of the reams of parcel assessment maps that were scanned and rubber-sheeted to form base GIS layers over the years. The author of the critiqued article proposed a methodology using only cadastral text descriptions to form a map