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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