1 50000 Scale Map

1 50000 Scale Map. (Therefore 2 mm on the map represents 100 metres and 2 cm a kilometre). What does a map scale of 1 50 000 mean? An important number, which can cause initial confusion, is the scale


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At a scale of 1:50,000, this series has enough detail to show individual buildings in rural areas Some of these are maps that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has released for sale to the public

Each map in this system has a unique number, which is a combination of numbers and letters This means that a given area will be shown at 2x the size of the equivalent on the 1:50,000 map The area covered by a given mapsheet is determined by its location in Canada.

Buy Corner Brook Topographic Map NTS Sheet 012A13 at 150,000 Scale. This might sound complicated at first, but it simply means that with a scale of 1:50,000 one centimetre on the map represents 50,000 cm on the ground. 1:25,000 maps have a higher level of detail, but cover a smaller geographical area than 1:50,000 maps

. All maps in the 1:50,000 series are located under the call number: A 1:50,000 scale can be read as 1 unit of distance on the map representing 50,000 units of the same distance in the real world