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The template can accept parameters that describe the size of the object on the screen: |viewport_cm= or |viewport_px=. The template also accepts other geohack parameters to generate the scale argument: dim; type (e.g., "mountain" or "city") population (for type="city" only)
A small-scale map cover large regions, such as world maps, continents or large nations. In other words, they show large areas of land on a small space. They are called small scale because the representative fraction is relatively small. Large-scale maps show smaller areas in more detail, such as county maps or town plans might. Such maps are ...
However, if the map is marked with an accurate and finely spaced latitude scale from which the latitude may be read directly—as is the case for the Mercator 1569 world map (sheets 3, 9, 15) and all subsequent nautical charts—the meridian distance between two latitudes φ 1 and φ 2 is simply
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The parameters align (left, center, or, by default, right) and size (default 300px width) may be used to set the template's horizontal position and the image's size per, respectively, the Location and Size entries here. The parameter heading may be used to replace the default "The seven continents of Earth" heading.
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2 Using new features: live-link markers and a dashed-line feature to mark out a distance 3 Using the new photo-panel feature to highlight a landmark 4 Using numbered dots, including the new lines features to sort out crowded dots