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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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