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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:44:20 -0400
From: nkandoian <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Cataloging maps with a bad scale bar <fwd>
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I once had the situation of a natural scale printed on a map being
incorrect, and I handled it by quoting the scale as indicated on the
map, following by the corrected scale in square brackets: Scale
1:13,000 [i.e. 1:130,000?]. (I used a question mark instead of "ca."
because it seemed like 1:130,000 was correct and the map maker had
just left out a zero.)
In your situation, since you are converting to (approximating) a
natural scale anyway, how about putting only the correct scale in the
255, with "ca." and in square brackets, and then adding a 500 note
something like "Scale bar incorrectly indicates a scale of ca. ..."?
And there you could either put a natural scale based on the bar scale,
or use the units of the bar scale and express them in inches or
centimeters.
Nancy Kandoian
Map Division
NYPL
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Subject: Cataloging maps with a bad scale bar <fwd>
Author: Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 09/13/2000 4:31 PM
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:31:37 -0400
From: Kathleen Weessies <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cataloging maps with a bad scale bar
Sender: Kathleen Weessies <[log in to unmask]>
We, no (who am I kidding), my cataloger is working on a set of Rwanda maps
from the United Nations Information Management Unit, produced with Rwanda
UNDP. The printing quality looks like a desktop publishing effort rather
than press, even though some of the sheets are large. On many of these maps
the scale bar is wrong. The length of the scale bar and the distance
attributed to it does not correspond to the actual distance, if compared to
other maps with known scales.
I suspect that these maps were manipulated on a desktop, with the map
enlarged to fill the page without also enlarging the scale bar.
The cataloger has computed the correct natural scale, but wants to indicate
in the record that the scale bar is not correct. Has anyone out there dealt
with this situation before?
Kathleen Weessies
Maps/GIS Librarian
Library 100
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
517-432-9669
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<DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>We, no (who am I kidding), my cataloger is
working on a set of Rwanda maps from the United Nations Information Management
Unit, produced with Rwanda UNDP. The printing quality looks like a desktop
publishing effort rather than press, even though some of the sheets are
large. On many of these maps the scale bar is wrong. The length of
the scale bar and the distance attributed to it does not correspond to the
actual distance, if compared to other maps with known scales.
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<DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>I suspect that these maps were manipulated
on a desktop, with the map enlarged to fill the page without also enlarging the
scale bar.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>The cataloger has computed the correct
natural scale, but wants to indicate in the record that the scale bar is not
correct. Has anyone out there dealt with this situation
before?</SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kathleen Weessies</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Maps/GIS Librarian</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Library 100</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michigan State University</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>East Lansing, MI 48823</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>517-432-9669</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
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