<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3018.900" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>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. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>I suspect that these maps were manipulated on a desktop, with the map enlarged to fill the page without also enlarging the scale bar.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390423316-13092000>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?</SPAN></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kathleen Weessies</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maps/GIS Librarian</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Library 100</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michigan State University</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>East Lansing, MI 48823</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>517-432-9669</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>[log in to unmask]<I></I></FONT> </P> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>