Map Link

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Map Link
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Founded	Goleta, California, US, early 1990s
Founder	Bill Hunt
Headquarters	Goleta, California, US
Website	http://maplink.com

Map Link is the largest map distributor in North America not affiliated with a major map publisher, and in terms of titles offered (over 100,000), it is the largest map distributor in the world.^{[citation needed]} It is the primary source of maps for Barnes and Noble and several other bookstore chains, and has been a major source of maps to map libraries.

Map Link was founded in 1984 as Pacific Travelers Supply, a map and travel store in central Santa Barbara. The brick-and-mortar retail business (still in operation) was spun off in the early 1990s.^[1]

Map Link is based in Goleta, California, just outside of Santa Barbara, in a converted lemon warehouse.

Map Link is also the publisher of a number of maps, usually of areas and topics not otherwise covered by other publishers. They are partners in Benchmark Maps, a publisher of state atlases and maps in the western United States.

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