--- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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> Sender: nkandoian <[log in to unmask]> 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 [log in to unmask] ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ 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 --- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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 [log in to unmask] --- End Forwarded Message --- --- End Forwarded Message ---