Question

What is meant by the scale of a map?​

Answer 1

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It's a number that represents the proportion of a size of an object on the map, compared to the real one.

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Answer 2

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.

There are three main ways that scale is indicated on a map: graphic (or bar), verbal, and representative fraction (RF).

Bar scales show scale using a graphic format.  The actual length of the bar scale shows what that length represents in real world units.  In the example below, the bar scale shows the distance on the map that represents ten kilometers or a little under six miles.

Scale can also be represented verbally or in text format. For example the verbal scale, 1″ = 100′ means that one inch measured the the map represented 100 feet on the ground.  This type of scale representation visually looks very similar to representative fraction (RF).  However, representative fraction avoids the use of units in detailing the scale of a map.  For example, scale that has a RF of 1:100 means that every one unit on the map equals one hundred of the same units on the ground.  In comparable terms a RF scale of 1:1,200 is the same scale as a verbal scale of 1″