I will reply to myself on this one. Lucky I figured it out before 500 people write back saying it is correct, my calculations are wrong.
If I have 1km on the ground, and my scale is 1:3000, then I divide 1 by 0.03 to get the value on the layout, low and behold it is 33.333cm, which is the measurement I have been getting. Good on me. James Kelly Spatial Information Officer Midway Pty Ltd 150 Corio Quay Road North Shore Victoria 3215 Tel. +61 3 5277 9255 Fax +61 3 5277 0667 Mob +61 4 3834 5760 (0438 345 760) -----Original Message----- From: James M. Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MI-L Print scale anomalies Hi all I have been producing quite a lot of layouts lately and they appeared to be correct. Upon checking the scale with a grid that I had produced previously, I got some unusual results which I can't explain. The grid is 1km x 1km in the map window, and the map window is projected into MGA94 zone 54. I have measured the grid in the map window using the distance tool, and it corresponds to 1km by 1km. I then put this into an A1 layout (with the printer as Adobe Acrobat). I scale the layout to 1:3000 (1 cm = 0.03 km). Now one would think that if you scale the map to 1:3000 and the grid is 1km x 1km on the ground, then the grid would appear as 30cm x 30cm on the layout. Again using the measurement tool, I checked this, and I got a value of around 35 cm. Now why, when I specifically say to scale it to 1:3000, is it not? Have I missed something here? If I haven't, then is there a workaround, apart from trial and error? Any help would be most appreciated. Cheers James Kelly Spatial Information Officer Midway Pty Ltd 150 Corio Quay Road North Shore Victoria 3215 Tel. +61 3 5277 9255 Fax +61 3 5277 0667 Mob +61 4 3834 5760 (0438 345 760) -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/tt --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17757
