The Ethnographic Atlas is a database of 1167 societies coded by George P. Murdock and published in 29 successive installments in the journal ETHNOLOGY, 1962-1980. It provides ethnographic codes and geographic coordinates, but no actual maps (maps were subsequently added by the MAPTAB program of the electronic journal World Cultures, by Douglas R. White, along with an electronic version of the codes and codebooks). An abridged volume of the Atlas was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1967. It contained the data for 862 of the best described societies in each of the 412 cultural groupings of the world. Murdock published a new edition at the Pittsburgh Press in 1980, titled ATLAS OF WORLD CULTURES, and included 563 of the best described societies in the atlas, classified in another 150 language groups. The original and complete atlas of 1167 societies, numerically coded by Herbert Barry, III, was published by World Cultures in Volume 2, number 4 (1986), under the direction of Douglas R. White, founder of the journal. These were replaced by the printed codes in Volume 6, number 3 (1990), under the direction of Gregory F. Truex. Online tabulation software was added by Michael Fischer, director of the University of Kent at the Center for Social Anthropology and Computing in Canterbury.