When I first moved to the Bay Area someone pointed out to me that most
tourist maps of San Francisco compress the scale of the western part of the
city. Here are a couple of maps that take that somewhat to an extreme, but
you can notice more subtle implementations of the different scales on other
maps of the city.
It takes a lot longer to walk from Divisadero to the Ocean than these maps
would have you believe!
https://baycityguide.com/media/00P0B00000tqJggUAE/San-Francisco-City-Map.pdfhttps://i1.wp.com/citysightseeingtours.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Brochure-Summer-2018-Large.jpg
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Craig Haggit <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> The one I'm most familiar with are oblique world maps like the Newsmaps
> from World War II (Target Tokyo
> <https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/539v5d> in the David Rumsey
> map collection, scale along the bottom). Can't think of a specific
> non-world map for this however.
>
> Craig
>
> Craig Haggit
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> Denver Public Library
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:24 AM Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Will anyone share examples of maps that depict variable scale across a
>> single map? I have one - Baltimore by Horn-Shafer Co. and Baltimore Area
>> Convention and Visitors Council 1967 (oclc 30570294)
>>
>> But I know there are many European cities that depict scale in this way.
>>
>> Cataloger's Desktop definition: A scale designation for a resource whose
>> scale is variable across the resource, when the range of values cannot be
>> determined.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Angie
>>
>
>
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