When I first moved to the Bay Area someone pointed out to me that most tourist maps of San Francisco compress the scale of the western part of the city. Here are a couple of maps that take that somewhat to an extreme, but you can notice more subtle implementations of the different scales on other maps of the city.

It takes a lot longer to walk from Divisadero to the Ocean than these maps would have you believe!

https://baycityguide.com/media/00P0B00000tqJggUAE/San-Francisco-City-Map.pdf
https://i1.wp.com/citysightseeingtours.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Brochure-Summer-2018-Large.jpg

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Craig Haggit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The one I'm most familiar with are oblique world maps like the Newsmaps from World War II (Target Tokyo in the David Rumsey map collection, scale along the bottom). Can't think of a specific non-world map for this however.

Craig

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On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:24 AM Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Will anyone share examples of maps that depict variable scale across a single map? I have one - Baltimore by Horn-Shafer Co. and Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Council 1967 (oclc 30570294)

But I know there are many European cities that depict scale in this way.

Cataloger's Desktop definition: A scale designation for a resource whose scale is variable across the resource, when the range of values cannot be determined.

Thanks in advance.

Angie 




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