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     <h3 id="title">OpenLayers Modify Feature Example</h3>
-    <div id="shortdesc">A demonstraton of the ModifyFeature control for editing vector features.</div>
+    <div id="shortdesc">A demonstration of the ModifyFeature control for editing vector features.</div>
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