Jonathan Crowe of The Map Room—"a blog about maps for a general audience, covering everything from collecting old maps to the latest in mapping technologies"—has a detailed follow-up to the William Finnegan story on the Great Forbes Smiley Map Caper. Of a press release on the scandal from the Antiquarian Booksellers' Accociation, which "denies ('contemptuously dismisse[s]') map dealer Graham Arader’s allegations that a substantial portion of the maps in the marketplace are stolen," Crowe writes tantalizingly:

As denials go, it’s weak and self-important: they cite the guidelines that their members must adhere to, which is irrelevant to the question of how much of the marketplace is contaminated by stolen goods. Their members may not be a part of it, but that does not mean that it doesn’t exist. Less bluster and more data, please.