This message is from Alice Hudson.----------------------Johnnie
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>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:17:32 -0500
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>Subject: Re: British miles in scale statement
With a "map scale indicator" you could check the scale using the
latitude grid, among other things.
It has been a while since I saw a notice of these being available for
sale, I am not sure if "map scale indicators" are still
available...Alice Hudson, NYPL
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Subject: British miles in scale statement
Author: "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 2/6/97 2:50 PM
2 messages.--------------------------Johnnie
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>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:01:15 -0800 (PST)
>From: Phil Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: British miles in scale statement
Yes, that would be my assumption -- Phil Hoehn, UC Berkeley Map
Collection
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Chuck Bearden wrote:
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> I'm cataloging a small map of Mexico, drawn by A. Arrowsmith and
> published by A. Constable of Edinburgh in 1823, and it's time to
> compute the scale. The graphic scale is labeled British Miles.
> It is not a nautical chart, so my assumption is that statute miles
> are meant rather than British nautical miles. Am I likely to be
> correct?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Chuck
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>Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 08:56:17 -0500 (EST)
>From: [log in to unmask] (Paige Andrew)
>Subject: Re: British miles in scale statement
Chuck, since you are cataloging a map showing Mexico I think you can be safe
to assume statute miles here. If you have a copy of AACCCM's _Cartographic
Materials: A Manual of Interpretation of AACR2_ there is a table on pg. 172
showing British conversions that might be of use.
Paige
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I'm cataloging a small map of Mexico, drawn by A. Arrowsmith and
>published by A. Constable of Edinburgh in 1823, and it's time to
>compute the scale. The graphic scale is labeled British Miles.
>It is not a nautical chart, so my assumption is that statute miles
>are meant rather than British nautical miles. Am I likely to be
>correct?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Chuck
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>Chuck Bearden email: [log in to unmask]
>Catalog Department voice: 713/247-3499
>Houston Public Library fax: 713/247-3158
>500 McKinney Ave.
>Houston, TX 77002 -=> NOT SPEAKING FOR HPL <=-
>-------------------------------------------------------------
> -=>HPL's Homepage: http://sparc.hpl.lib.tx.us<=-
>
Mr. Paige G. Andrew
Maps/Nonbook Cataloger
E506 Pattee Library
Pennsylvania State University Libraries
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
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