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What is a scale of the map? Why are they important in maps

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Ans: The map scales are highly important for providing a sense of size and distance to readers. Most often the map scale used on a particular map is stated on the map, itself. With the help of maps, and charts it becomes easier to determine various routes between cities, countries, and continents.

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Answer 2

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Map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground. ... For example, a 1:100000 scale map is considered a larger scale than a 1:250000 scale map.

There are three ways to show the scale of a map: graphic (or bar), verbal, and representative fraction.

Scale on a map is important in order to give the map reader a sense of size. Maps are just about always smaller than what they really represent, and scale is a way of quantifying how much smaller they are. That’s information you need in order to interpret a distance you see (say, about a centimeter on the map) to the distance is represents (about 25,000 cm, or 1/4 km in real life, if the map scale is 1:25,000). Area, and in some ways direction, also depend on this.

A scale reference isn’t always important. Subway maps often give you a diagram-like representation of lines and connections, which tells you how to travel through the network they constitute, but they aren’t to scale, meaning that distances on those maps don’t consistently reflect those distances in the real world. In cases such as these, what’s important are the relative connections, not the exact distances, areas, or directions; these maps are useful because they preserve topological relationships, but they don’t need to preserve or depict Cartesian ones.

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