If you were designing a map of your city, would you let 1 inch equal 1/4 mile, 40 miles, or 400 miles? why?

Question

If you were designing a map of your city, would you let 1 inch equal 1/4 mile, 40 miles, or 400 miles? why?

Answer 1

I live in a small town (you can throw a rock from end to end). I'd do mine full size. LOL

Answer 2

of course..............so that i can put the whole city on the paper or map otherwise,if i don`t do that(ratio) then i`ll need a paper as big as my  city to design a map......................

Answer 3

what you are asking has a title called "Scale". for instance a map of manhattan would be 1 inch equals a quater-mile. Reason is manhattan is only  about a mile and 1/2 wide. Yet say you wanted to map Chicago; Your scale would would have to be 1 inch = 10 miles because  Chicago is 50 miles wide! I know this is a difficult matter because of all the many details that the imagination pops up in our minds. What you are dealing with is really algebraic because the problem is really a ratio problem!!

Answer 4

One inch equal a mile...

Answer 5

1 inch = 1/4 mile         If your map was 12x12 inches, it would mean the mileage is 3 x 3 miles or 9 sq. miles.

Answer 6

how big is the city how big is the paper