{"id":1789595,"date":"2020-10-28T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789595"},"modified":"2020-10-28T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:53:31","slug":"seeger-map-company-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/seeger-map-company-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeger Map Company to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angie Cope reports that the Seeger Map Company, the Wisconsin-based publisher of hundreds of city, county and state maps, many for the American Automobile Association, since the 1970s, will be closing down at the end of the year<\/a>. \u201cAt the height of the company\u2019s success in the mid-1990s, they employed 27 people and produced 2 million maps a year.\u201d [MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angie Cope reports that the Seeger Map Company, the Wisconsin-based publisher of hundreds of city, county and state maps, many for the American Automobile Association, since the 1970s, will be closing down at the end… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[866,845,1490],"class_list":["post-1789595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-industry","tag-map-publishers","tag-paper-maps","tag-seeger-map-company","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786260,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/purple-lizard-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789595,"position":0},"title":"Purple Lizard Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Every now and again I discover another local mapmaking company whose products are familiar to, even well-loved by, well, the locals, but not much known elsewhere: the A-Z maps and London; the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer; Kroll and Seattle; Wunnenberg and St. Louis; Sherlock and Winnipeg (that one I knew\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Industry"","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Purple Lizard map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/purple-lizard-rothrock-297x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1788306,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/apples-new-maps-now-cover-the-entire-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789595,"position":1},"title":"Apple\u2019s New Maps Now Cover the Entire United States","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Last year Apple rolled out its new map data in stages, with new coverage being added on a state-by-state or region-by-region basis. 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