I need to purchase basemaps for a number of project areas (100 or so project areas). The areas of interest can range from the size of a building 1000 sq metres to areas covering 100 sq Kilometres. Obviously not one scale will be suitable for all areas of interest. A 1:50 000 map might be suitable to examine an area which runs 30 km along a river while it would not give much map information about an area which is only 1 sq km. A larger scale such as 1:2000 might be more suitable for examining 1 sq km areas. I guess what I'm wondering is if I know the size of an area I'm interested in, is there any kind of rule of thumb that I can follow that can tell me "in general" what map scale would be most appropriate for that area? I know its a very general question and other factors come into play when choosing a map scale such as what type of information I want to be able to see in that area or if other data is needed to be overlaid that they should be at the same scale etc... But for now just need a general idea of how far do you zoom into an area or what size does an area have to be before you need to have a larger scale basemap representing that area? Hope that makes sense! Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. TIA Dan _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
