GEOG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Date Line, Antarctic Circle
15 Oct 2020
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* the problems of transferring a round globe onto a flat surface, a piece of paper (fig. * do this by an orderly arrangement of parallels & meridians. * mercator (one of the most common types used) * the matter of scale of a map: the ratio of distance on the map to actual distance on the ground (fig. Ex: 1:24000 means, 1 inch on the map equals 24,000 inches on the ground or 2000 feet; a. Large scale map shows a relatively small area of the earth"s surface (table 1. 3, pg. 1:100000 -----> 1 inch on the map equals 1 million inches on the ground, or about. 83,333. 33 feet or about 15. 78 miles; a small scale map shows a relatively large area of the earth"s surface. The larger the second number shows a larger area of earth"s surface, but is a smaller scale.
