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What do people mean when they say a map is?

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Drawn to scale, means a level of representation. This isapplied to cartography (mapping), where scale is the ratiobetween map distance and distance on the ground. Thus, arepresentative fraction of 1 : 15 000 indicates that 1 cm (orinch) on the map represents 15 000 cm (or inches) on theground.

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