"If you were designing a map of your city, would you let 1 inch equal 1 mile, 100 miles or 500 mile? Why?

Question

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Answer 1

1 inch should equal a mile (not to many cities 100 across ) good luck .

Answer 2

lol haha

Answer 3

1 inch 1 mile most citys arent 500 miles big in a larger city 1 inch 10 milesif you were maping the country maybe 1 inch 100 0r 500 miles

Answer 4

If you're in America you can actually let the government help you on this

The US Geological Survey publishes topographic contour maps -usually simply refered to as quads*-that use the  1:62500 scale or one inch =62500 inches or basically an inch to a mile . In practice that's too big a scale for an urban area so then you go to the USGS maps that are on the 7.5 minute scale and you have a 1:24000 or one inch =about 3/8 mile

*The term "quad" refers to the fact that the maps are a quarter of a degree by a quarter of a degree or fifteen minutes per side

Answer 5

It would depend on how large you want the map to be. If you have say, 6 blocks in a mile, those six blocks would take up one inch if 1"=1 mile, but would be a microscopic spec if 1"= 500 miles. You wouldn't even be able to draw the blocks. So the other side of the coin is the amount of detail you want.