Giant Map Is Unveiled to Explain Giant Plan

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How do you plan for an event that some are calling the largest in U.S. history? You get a map that's almost as big as the city itself.

Okay, that's an exaggeration. But at a morning news conference, the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee showed reporters a 40-foot-by-40-foot map that they are using to plan for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20, going over things as diverse as security to portable toilets to video screens.

It was like a giant play area for kids, complete with models of the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol and the White House, and color-coded grids. (National Mall in green! Ellipse in light blue!) [...]

The 40-foot-by-40-foot map has models of the Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and White House. (Bill O'Leary)

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Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-watch/2008/12/giant_map_is_unveiled_to_expla.html

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