Imagine that you’re taking a GIS class and your instructor tasks everyone with coming up with the answer to, “what is the length of the coastline of Maine?” Everyone downloads a different GIS data set to calculate the length and everyone comes back with a completely different answer to that […]
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Understanding Scale
Scale is the relationship that the depicted feature on map has to its actual size in the real word (more: map scale). All maps are modeled representations of the real world and therefore the features are reduced in size when mapped. In other words, scale is the measurement of the […]