Answer to Question #130696 in Geomatics for Khanh Ngoc Nguyen

Question

What are the two meanings of scale in Geography? Are they related in any way?

Answer 1

A scale refers to the relationship between distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. It also means the ratio of the mapped point's scale to the nominal scale. The scales have a common feature because both of them are represented as the ratio between real world size and the size in units of the map.