Hi, guess that goes down in geotools, where the renderer can
calculate, given a DPI, the scale.
What comes next is pure memory grabbing:
- I think OGC sets 90 dpi as standard
- the LiteRenderer should have a getScale or calculateScale method.

Andrea


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Juho Kokkonen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks Jody for your quick response. But i wanna know that what measure that
> number is there, and where it comes? does udig takes that some how from the
> geotiff image or how?
>
> - Juho
>
> ________________________________
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> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Udig scale denominator
>
> You got it. So 1:1 would be "life sized". 1:2 would be 1/2 sized.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Wednesday, 10 August 2011 at 6:38 AM, Juho Kokkonen wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I think this could be a silly question, but i will ask it anyway.
>
> I wanna know, what units are udig scale field numbers?
>
> I'll give u an examble:
>
> On my application udig scale denominator field reads number like 1 : 1 000
> 000
>
> Does that meaning that one meter in real life is 1 000 000 meters on current
> map?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Juho
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