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small-scale map

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A map having a scale smaller than 1:600,000. See also map.


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The small-scale maps are created from large-scale maps through scale changes and a compilation process which involves the selection and generalization of features.
I am forced to conclude that 'someone in authority' is looking at a small-scale map and misjudging the proximity of the two areas.
Both viewpoint and view shift from the distant, and the small-scale map showing whole countries or continents, to the factotum's intimacy with the agricultural idiosyncrasies of his master's estate and to the individual streets of London along which the queen moved in her London "Progress," trailing pageants in her wake.
 
 
 
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