A_V∕d for the sample in this paper divided into stars closer than and beyond 1 kpc. No error bars are plotted but they are estimated at ~20%, with the larger part of the error budget coming from the distance uncertainty. The underlying histograms show the 16th, 50th, and 84th percentiles (median plus lower and upper 1σ equivalents) per Galactic octant. We note that only 19 stars have |b| > 10^o, of which seven are in Orion (see Fig. 12).