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Would you probably find a scale of 1 inch equaling 1500 miles on a map of a city state or world?
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∙ 14y ago
Sure. That would be OK.
16 inches on the map would represent (16 x 1500) = 24,000 miles, roughly the earth's circumference.
16 inches or a little bit bigger to represent the whole surface of the earth, cut up and flattened out ...
that's reasonable.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoMap scales are given in 1 of 3 ways. The type of scale in your question is called the simple verbal scale. A scale of 1in equals 1,500 miles would certainly not be used on a map of a city and only on an overview map of the world. To put it in perspective, the earth's circumference at the equator is 24, 902 miles so depicting the world on a scale of 1in equals 1,500 miles would give a map width of only 16.6013in (40.957cm).
Or put it like this, on a map with a scale of 1in equals 1,500 miles, the USA would be roughly 1.333in wide and the Atlantic Ocean only 2.5in wide. A map drawn to a scale of 1in equals 1,500 miles would only be suitable for overviews to depict countries and oceans in relation to each other. It would be too small to show any real detail.
Another type of scale is the fractional scale. If the scale is 1:1,500, this would equate roughly to a verbal scale of 1in equals1/4 mile, which would be a far more suitable scale for a city map.
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∙ 13y agoThe smaller the distance represented by 1 inch on a map's scale, the larger the scale [ ratio of a map distance to the actual real distance ].
So, the 1 Inch = 100 miles is TWICE the scale of the other in your case.
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∙ 14y agoThat would be a world map. To give you a reference, the US from east coast to west coast is about 3000 miles. So the length on a map of the US would be about 2 inches.
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