Dan, Give me a call at the 800#, Ext 10 and lets's discuss what you will be doing. A couple ofsolutions come to mind, but they all would be final result specific.
Best, ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:03 PM Subject: MI-L Map scale in relation to area size of interest > > > I need to purchase basemaps for a number of project areas (100 or so project > areas). > The areas of interest can range from the size of a building 1000 sq metres to > areas covering 100 sq Kilometres. Obviously not one scale will be suitable for > all areas of interest. A 1:50 000 map might be suitable to examine an area > which runs 30 km along a river while it would not give much map information > about an area which is only 1 sq km. A larger scale such as 1:2000 might be > more suitable for examining 1 sq km areas. I guess what I'm wondering is if I > know the size of an area I'm interested in, is there any kind of rule of thumb > that I can follow that can tell me "in general" what map scale would be most > appropriate for that area? > > I know its a very general question and other factors come into play when > choosing a map scale such as what type of information I want to be able to see > in that area or if other data is needed to be overlaid that they should be at > the same scale etc... But for now just need a general idea of how far do you > zoom into an area or what size does an area have to be before you need to have a > larger scale basemap representing that area? Hope that makes sense! Any ideas or > thoughts would be appreciated. > > TIA > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
