scale information

[howiet]

Thanks daan for your earlier reply, I don't think that I was very clear in my question to you so I will continue.

I am fairly new to Cartography especially Geocart3 although have been drawing maps for many years but want to understand a lot more about how maps are constructed. The question of a scale bar plus the relevant data is something that I always put on a map but usually having taken the scale of the last printed map or rough. First of all am I missing something in Geocart3 about the information on the scale of the map that I have just constructed? I refer to the Nominal Scale in the Maps drop down menu ie. 42.00000 km/cm. My values would then have to taken into Illustrator and manually constructed converting 42.00 into a more realistic value of 0 to 100 km or whatever the size dictates. Apologies for such ignorance but if I cannot air my views or problems then I am going to be eternally stuck!

best

howiet

[daan]

Hello, Howiet.

With apologies, I don’t yet apprehend what you need. The scale values you see in the Nominal Scale dialog are correct and should be usable as-is. So, for example, if the Nominal Scale dialog states 42km/cm, that would be the equivalent of 1cm = 42km, which is also the equivalent of 1: 4,200,000. Do you need to construct a scale bar in Adobe Illustrator to represent that? Or…?

Best,
— daan