lass="docutils literal"><span class="pre">put</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get</span></tt> operations
to vertices local to the process executing the operation. For example,
we can create a property map that accesses the length of each highway
as follows:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
RoadMap map; // distributed graph instance

typedef property_map&lt;RoadMap, int Highway::*&gt;::type
  road_length = get(&amp;Highway::length, map);
</pre>
<p>Now, one can access the length 