What is scale?
relationship of charts distance to earth distance in ratio, unit of measurements, fraction
Scale as ration
Ration between chart distance (CD) and earth distance (ED)
How is scale expressed in ratio?
CD:ED
How is CD written?
1
What is CD equal to?
4 cm
What is ED equal to?
1 km
CD:ED =
1:25 000
Scale as written as fraction…
CD/ED = 1/25 000